Occiput

Origin

From Latin occiput, occipitium ("the back part of the head"), from ob ("over against") + caput ("head"). Compare sinciput.

Full definition of occiput

Noun

1. (chiefly anatomy) The back part of the head or skull (contradistinct from sinciput).
• 1953, Isaac Asimov, (1971 publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 9: ‘The Conspirators’, page 95, ¶ 8And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes, and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

Related terms

• occipital