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- New Latin · borrowed fromoccipitālis
- English todayoccipitalis
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin occipitālis, ellipsis of mūsculus occipitālis (“occipital muscle”). Doublet of occipital.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
occipitalis
Today it means: A muscle of the head that arises from the lateral two-thirds of the superior nuchal lines and from the mastoid part of the temporal bone, inserts into the galea aponeurotica, and acts to move the scalp; it is sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle. Full definition →
New Latin occipitālis