Usually means: Back region of the skull.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word occipital:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. occipital: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. occipital: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occipital: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occipital: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occipital: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occipital, occipital: Wordnik
  7. Occipital, Occipital, Occipital, Occipital: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. occipital: Wiktionary
  9. occipital: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. occipital: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. occipital: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. occipital: Dictionary.com
  13. occipital: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Occipital: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Occipital: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. occipital: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. occipital: Rhymezone
  18. Occipital: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. occipital: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. occipital: Free Dictionary
  21. occipital: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. occipital: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. occipital: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. occipital: Financial dictionary

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  1. occipital: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. occipital: Medical dictionary
  6. Occipital: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  8. Occipital: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

(Note: See occipitally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (occipital)

adjective:  (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located within or near the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.
noun:  (zootomy) An occipital scale in reptiles.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of occipital bone. [The bone at the back of the skull.]

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