Definition of "occipital" []

• Of or relating to the occiput or to the occipital bone: an occipital fracture. (adjective)
• The occipital bone. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The position of the tentorium can easily be ascertained in your own head by the fact that where it crosses the median line there is a little projection of bone called the occipital knob, very prominent on some persons, barely perceptible on others."
• "I passed my hand absently across my hair - what Dixon had described as the occipital region."
• "Above the foramen magnum the median supra-occipital bone completes what is called the occipital arch."