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Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone. Occipital bone , the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher

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Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone. Occipital bone , the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. -- Occipital point , the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

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• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• OCCIPUT
  The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.
• CRANIUM
  The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull. (more info) Gr.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• FORAMEN
  A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro , the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow , the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• OCCIPITAL
  Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone. Occipital bone , the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PERICRANIUM
  The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SUPRAOCCIPITAL
  Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput; of or pertaining to the supraoccipital bone. -- n.
• OSTEOCRANIUM
  The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
• EXOCCIPITAL
  Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. -- n.
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• EPICRANIUM
  The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.