paroccipital

English

Alternative forms

paraoccipital

Etymology

From para- +‎ occipital.

Adjective

paroccipital (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
    paroccipital process
    paroccipital region

Derived terms

Noun

paroccipital (plural paroccipitals)

  1. Alternative form of paraoccipital.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paroccipital”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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