Meanings
adjectiveoccipitomastoid (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyRelating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones
The practitioner sits behind the participant’s head, contacts participant’s lateral protuberances of the squama occipitalis (medially to the occipitomastoid suture) with the thenar eminence of both hands.
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with occipitomastoid
mastoidbimastoidcleidomastoidotomastoidparamastoidpetromastoidpostmastoidsternocleidomastoidsternomastoidstylomastoidsupramastoidtympanomastoid
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