mastoids

I'm often fudging the stern mastoids in my drawings and any tips like this arc of hollows for the neck would be most appreciated.

Arc of Hollows James Gurney 2009

Gasping for air, his hands to his mastoids, Silk could not even nod.

Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

_Of the neck_: The _sterno-mastoids_, which pass between the mastoid processes, back of the ears, and the upper end of the sternum.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

The carotid arteries are displaced laterally beneath the sterno-mastoids without detriment; the superficial veins -- anterior and external jugular -- are greatly distended in those cases in which the goitre grows downwards behind the sternum.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Sometimes the crest is double, disposed in parallel ridges, with a deep hollow between; or it is treble, when the two lines of parting running along the mastoids make it remarkably like bears 'ears, the central prism rises high, and the side hair is plaited into little pig-tails.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

All electrodes were referenced off-line to the average of the left and right mastoids.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Stephen M. Emrich et al. 2009

; half the adult population wakened from bad dreams and routinely discovered little bleeding cuts at the base of their skulls on the mastoids,: exactly the way Hannah had.

Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

Sometimes the crest is double, disposed in parallel ridges, with a deep hollow between; or it is treble, when the two lines of parting running along the mastoids make it remarkably like bears’ ears, the central prism rises high, and the side hair is plaited into little pig-tails.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003