Etymology

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Today it means: The suprasternal notch, the visible dip in the human neck between the clavicles. Full definition →

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The story

Pseudo-Latinate/medical-sounding term invented for the 1941 film Suspicion, and popularized by the 1995 film Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Compare similar sounding words like occipital.

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