How to Use occipital in a Sentence

occipital

adjective
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  • The bone spurs jut off of what’s called the external occipital protuberance (EOP) of the skull.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
  • This was followed by numbness in his left arm and finally the eruption of pain in his occipital area.
    — Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • At the same time, the prefrontal censor is dialing itself down, the brain’s visual centers, in the occipital lobe at the back of the head, are dialing up.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
  • The region, called the fusiform gyrus, lines the base of the occipital and temporal lobes and is specialized for facial recognition.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • Flat bones are often present on the skull, encompassing your frontal and occipital bones.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • Suppose the occipital cortex had been more active in metal fans.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • During the operation, a sub-occipital nerve was severed, the lawsuit states.
    — Kent Faulk | [email protected], AL.com, 11 May 2017
  • The occipital cortex processes visual information and allows us to see faces, trees, the stars.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • And while the trigeminal nerve is certainly involved, Dr. Ailani notes there’s also a theory that the occipital nerve, which supplies feeling to the back and top of your head, may somehow contribute to this condition, too.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Lobe labels were blue (occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal).
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2012
  • One of the big ones is understanding how the brain translates visual information into mental images as processed by our occipital and temporal lobes.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There, the child suffered respiratory failure, post-traumatic seizures and an occipital stroke.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The effect, called enlarged external occipital protuberance, used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title.
    — nola.com, 22 June 2019
  • The rider was taken to a hospital with serious injuries including a brain bleed, a lacerated liver and kidney, and an occipital fracture, police said.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The other extreme hypothesis was that UD’s brain would completely compensate, with other regions taking over the roles of the right sides of the occipital and temporal lobes, leading UD to function completely normally.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • That privilege belongs to more posterior regions—the parietal, temporal and occipital lobes.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • Brain regions crucial to behavior and development, like the amygdala and occipital frontal cortex, are arranged differently.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2012
  • The cable management system on Jaybird’s svelte Freedom Wireless earbuds keeps the connecting wire wrapped closely and comfortably around your head’s occipital bone, completely eliminating cord dangle.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 14 July 2017
  • This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • In amateur writers, neurons fired in the lateral occipital areas, which are associated with visual processing.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • Specifically, brain activity began in temporal regions instead of frontal, and there was no activity in occipital (visual) cortex or parietal areas.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022

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