Crossword-Solution: OCCIPITAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Occipital | a. | Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone. |
| Occipital | n. | The occipital bone. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “OCCIPITAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BACK of head (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| BACK of skull (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to the lower skull bone | 1 answer |
| __ lobe: brain area | 1 answer |
| of or relating to the back of the head or skull | 1 answer |
| back of head | 3 answers |
| BONE of the head | 6 answers |
| BRAIN lobe | 6 answers |
| A SAUCER-SHAPED MEMBRANE BONE THAT FORMS THE BACK OF THE SKULL | 10 answers |
| HEAD bone | 12 answers |
| SKULL bone | 20 answers |
| BONE of the human body | 41 answers |
| Bone | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMECZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OCCIPITAL (5)
Medical materialism finishes up Saint Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex, he being an epileptic.
The first case was a paralytic idiot of thirty-nine, whose cranial development was small in proportion to the size of the face and body; the cranium was oxycephalic; the scalp was lax and redundant and the hair thin; there were 13 furrows, five on each side running anteroposteriorly, and three in the occipital region running transversely.
The patient recovered her general health, but with almost total loss of hair, only a few red, white, and black hairs remaining on the occipital and temporal regions.
Fowler mentions the case of a healthy girl of sixteen who found one morning while combing her hair, which was black, that a strip the whole length of the back hair was white, starting from a surface about two inches square around the occipital protuberance.
Maunoir reports congenital malformation of the brain, consisting of almost complete absence of the occipital lobe.
Quotes with OCCIPITAL (1)
Our visual field, the entire view of what we can see when we look out into the world, is divided into billions of tiny spots or pixels. Each pixel is filled with atoms and molecules that are in vibration. The retinal cells in the back of our eyes detect the movement of those atomic particles. Atoms vibrating at different frequencies emit different wavelengths of energy, and this information is eventually coded as different colors by the visual cortex in the occipital region o…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2015).