occipital point

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English

Noun

occipital point (plural occipital points)

  1. (anatomy) The point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for occipital point”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)