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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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The suprasternal notch, the visible dip in the human neck between the clavicles. Full definition →
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.