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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 occipital bone 名詞
 枕骨

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Oc·cip·i·tal a.  Anat. Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.
 Occipital bone Anat., the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult.
 Occipital point Anat., the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 occipital bone
      n : a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the
          skull