"Occiput" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... usual in these people, but the large size of the jaws, the quadrangular orbits, and the width between the cheek bones, are all remarkably developed; while the rounded head, elevated vertex, vertical occiput and great inter-parietal diameter, (which is no less than 5.7 inches,) render this skull a type of national ...
— Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines • Samuel George Morton
... two meters in length, three-fourths of which belong to the tail. The head, which is relatively small, appears to be larger than it really is, owing to the development of the piliform tuft on the occiput, this being capable of erection so as to form a crest 0.05 to 0.06 of a meter in height. The feathers of this crest are brown and white. The back and sides of the head are covered with downy feathers of a silky brown and silvery gray, and the front of the neck with piliform feathers ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various
... dotes on that pure, polished surface (Like ivory turned to the billiard-room's spherosid), BALDER'S occiput glassing bewitchingly her face, The face of his Dear, by herself in her hero eyed— DULCINEA would deem it profanity, were It in nature to beg for a tress of ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 • Various
... competitor showed a skin of almost ebon blackness—a frame of herculean development—a broad face, with flat nose and thick lubberly lips—a head of enormous circumference, surmounted by a mop of woolly hair, standing erect several inches above his occiput. ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid
... him, but is slightly smaller, while her tail, though forked like her mate's, is from two and a half to three inches shorter. The salmon and scarlet ornaments on the sides, flanks, and axillars are paler than those of her lord, and the scarlet spot shows very indistinctly on her occiput. The young of both sexes don the dress of the mother bird during the first season, save that they fail to adorn themselves with a ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... of the cerebrum are known as frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital, according to the parts of the brain referred to: as forehead, temples, crown, or occiput. The cerebellum, or hind brain, is also divided into two hemispheres, and is situated behind and below the hemispheres ...
— Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter |
