occipito-a word element meaning 'occiput', as in occipitofrontal (relating to both occiput and forehead), occipitohyoid (relating to both the occipital and the hyoid bone), occipitoparietal, occipitosphenoid.
[combining form representing Latin occiput]occipito-
combining form
- relating to the occipital lobe or the occipital bone表示“枕叶的”; “枕骨的”:
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occipitotemporal.
词源
from medieval Latin occipitalis, from Latin caput, capit- 'head'.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Occipito-angular, pertaining to or common to the occipital lobe and the angular convolution.
1898 Occipito-angular . [ see corticipetal a.]
1831 C. D. Meigs tr. Velpeau'sElem. Treat. Midwifery v. 290The English accoucheurs..bestow the title of natural labour only upon the *occipito-anterior position, while according to them, the occipito-posterior position belongs to the class of preternatural labour.
1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. 11/1 (caption)Vertex presentation, left occipito-anterior position, well flexed.
1831 R. Knox Cloquet'sAnat. 178Anterior *Occipito-Atlantal Ligament.
Ibid. 103Another ligament named the *occipito-axoid.
[ 1746Parsons in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 8The Office of the *Occipito-Frontalis is to pull the Skin of the Head backward, drawing up the Eye-brows. ]
1811 Hooper Med. Dict. ,Occipito-frontalis..Occipito-frontal of Dumas.
1857 Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 220The occipito-frontal extends from the occipital protuberance to the frontal boss.
1892 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Occipito-hyoid muscle, an occasional muscle arising from the occipital bone and inserted into the hyoid bone.
1855 Holden Hum. Osteol. (1878) 114The ‘*occipito-mastoid suture’..connects the occipital with the mastoid portion of the temporal bone.
1857 Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 221The greatest circumference of the head corresponds with the *occipito-mental diameter.
1875 Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 761/1The squamosal..is..somewhat loosely united with the frontal and parietal and with the complex *occipito-otic bone.
1892 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Occipito-parietal index, the relation between the transverse diameter of the skull and the distance from one asterion to the other, the former being taken at 100.
1831 *Occipito-posterior . [ see occipito-anterior above]
1971 Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 49/1Impaired performance was associated with toxaemia, occipitoposterior presentation and delivery in an ambulance.
1854 Owen in Circ. Sc. , Organ.Nat. I. 232An *occipito-sphenoidal bone..formed..by the coalescence of the basioccipital with the basisphenoid.
ORIGIN: from occipital : see -o- .
occipito-
combining form
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