Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the occipital bone and to the axis or second cervical vertebra: applied to ligaments which are also called the apparatus ligamentosus colli. The odontoid ligaments or check-ligaments are also generically occipito-axial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
occipital bone and secondvertebra , oraxis .
Etymologies
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occipito- + axial
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Examples
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Its anterior surface is separated from the basilar part of the occipital bone and the upper part of the odontoid process by the membranes of the brain and the occipitoaxial ligaments.
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The Membrana Tectoria (occipitoaxial ligament) (Figs. 307, 308).
III. Syndesmology. 5c. Articulations of the Vertebral Column with the Cranium 1918
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