exoccipital

alternative exooccipital

1. not comparableanatomyPertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foramen of the skull.

plural exoccipitals · alternative exooccipital

1. anatomySuch a bone.

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   Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of the Cynodontia and mammals.

   1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles