How to Use occipital in a Sentence

occipital

adjective
  • This was followed by numbness in his left arm and finally the eruption of pain in his occipital area.
    — Usman T. Malik, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Flat bones are often present on the skull, encompassing your frontal and occipital bones.
    — Liam Gravvat, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • Suppose the occipital cortex had been more active in metal fans.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Scurry later found out that the blow resulted in a traumatic brain injury that smashed her occipital nerve.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 July 2023
  • Its occipital hinge fit helps improve coverage around one of the head’s most vulnerable areas.
    — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
  • The region, called the fusiform gyrus, lines the base of the occipital and temporal lobes and is specialized for facial recognition.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • Lobe labels were blue (occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal).
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2012
  • During the operation, a sub-occipital nerve was severed, the lawsuit states.
    — Kent Faulk | [email protected], AL.com, 11 May 2017
  • At the same time, the prefrontal censor is dialing itself down, the brain’s visual centers, in the occipital lobe at the back of the head, are dialing up.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 May 2017
  • In the insight case, the brain scans showed that in the second before the answer was reached, there was a burst of alpha waves in the right occipital cortex, which processes vision.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 July 2024
  • The bone spurs jut off of what’s called the external occipital protuberance (EOP) of the skull.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
  • The optic nerve is similar to a telephone cable that connects the eye to the occipital cortex at the very back of the brain, where what is viewed is then processed and interpreted.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • There, the child suffered respiratory failure, post-traumatic seizures and an occipital stroke.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2018
  • One of the big ones is understanding how the brain translates visual information into mental images as processed by our occipital and temporal lobes.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
  • That privilege belongs to more posterior regions—the parietal, temporal and occipital lobes.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • Brain regions crucial to behavior and development, like the amygdala and occipital frontal cortex, are arranged differently.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2012
  • In amateur writers, neurons fired in the lateral occipital areas, which are associated with visual processing.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • Specifically, brain activity began in temporal regions instead of frontal, and there was no activity in occipital (visual) cortex or parietal areas.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The effect, called enlarged external occipital protuberance, used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19th century, objected to its title.
    — nola.com, 22 June 2019
  • Occipital Neuralgia Occipital neuralgia is a rare disorder that causes headaches due to irritation of the occipital nerve, which perceives sensation in the scalp.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
  • The cable management system on Jaybird’s svelte Freedom Wireless earbuds keeps the connecting wire wrapped closely and comfortably around your head’s occipital bone, completely eliminating cord dangle.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 14 July 2017
  • The other extreme hypothesis was that UD’s brain would completely compensate, with other regions taking over the roles of the right sides of the occipital and temporal lobes, leading UD to function completely normally.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The condition, bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation, is commonly known as internal or orthopedic decapitation.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • Two dying patients, on being removed from ventilator support, exhibited surges of gamma-wave activity within the temporo–parieto–occipital junctions, as well as between the TPO zones and the contralateral prefrontal areas.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023

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