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Definition of Occiputs
1. occiput [n] - See also: occiput
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occiputs
Literary usage of Occiputs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"ar, :: the occiputs thus cut off be interchanged " ; his economist again, who
tries " t< reduce human excrement lo its original food. ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1868)
"... and 76° 9' W. All were short, with flat, steeply-inclined, occiputs. The one
figured has the cephalic index 0'91. Three skulls sent from Lima, ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1903)
"It is, therefore, used to correct anterior occiputs and transverse heads.
As regards posterior occiputs, they are brought to the transverse if possible by ..."
4. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1900)
"... makes his pupils swallow wafers on which he writes his theorems; his moralist,
who, to reconcile political parties, proposes to saw off the occiputs and ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1860)
"One is a decidedly long skull ; the other tolerably so; the noses of good length
and prominent, and the occiputs rather upright in outline.f And the ..."
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