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suboccipital

suboccipital adjective: situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.

Adjective

suboccipital (not comparable)

  1. Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.

Noun

suboccipital (plural suboccipitals)

  1. (colloquial) Any of the group of suboccipital muscles.

suboccipital meaning in Tamil

suboccipital in Tamil

பிடரியடி, பின்னுச்சியடி

Forms of suboccipital

pluralsuboccipitals

Origin of suboccipital

From sub- + occipital.

Words formed from suboccipital

  • suboccipital muscle
  • suboccipital nerve
  • suboccipital triangle

Questions about suboccipital

What does suboccipital mean?
Suboccipital means situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.
What is suboccipital in Tamil?
Suboccipital in Tamil is பிடரியடி, பின்னுச்சியடி. See Suboccipital meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is suboccipital?
Suboccipital can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near suboccipital in the dictionary

  1. subobscure
  2. subobscurely
  3. subobsolete
  4. subobtuse
  5. subobtusely
  6. suboccipital
  7. suboccipitally
  8. suboccipitals
  9. suboccipitobregmatic
  10. subocclusal
  11. subocclusion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suboccipital (page history and authors); suboccipital (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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