occipitomastoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, or connecting the occipital and mastoid bones
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From occipito- + mastoid.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: occipito