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exoccipital

exoccipital adjective: pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.

Adjective

exoccipital (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.

Noun

exoccipital (plural exoccipitals)

  1. Such a bone.
    • Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of...1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles

Forms of exoccipital

Adjective
alternative formexooccipital
Noun
pluralexoccipitals

Origin of exoccipital

From exo- + occipital.

Questions about exoccipital

What does exoccipital mean?
Exoccipital means pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.
What part of speech is exoccipital?
Exoccipital can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near exoccipital in the dictionary

  1. exocarp
  2. exocarpal
  3. exocarpic
  4. exocarpic acid
  5. exocarps
  6. exoccipital
  7. exoccipitals
  8. exocellobiohydrolase
  9. exocellobiohydrolases
  10. exocellular
  11. exocellulase

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