occipital bone

English

Skull, including occipital bone

Etymology

From the Latin word occiput, from the words ob, meaning behind, and caput, meaning head.

Noun

occipital bone (plural occipital bones)

1. The bone at the back of the skull.

Translations

bone at the back of the skull

• Czech: týlní kost f
• Estonian: kuklaluu
• Finnish: takaraivonluu (fi)
• German: Hinterhauptbein n, Hinterhauptsbein n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἰνίον n (iníon)

• Hungarian: nyakszirtcsont (hu)
• Korean: 뒤통수뼈 (ko) (dwitongsuppyeo)
• Polish: potylica (pl) f
• Turkish: oksipital kemik

See also

• occipital bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia