infraoccipital

English

Etymology

From infra- +‎ occipital.

Adjective

infraoccipital (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Situated below the occiput.

   Synonym: suboccipital

   • 1985 December, Jean-Pierre Bouvet, Jean-Marie le Parc, Bernard Michalski, Charif Benlahrache, Louis Auquier, “Acute neck pain due to calcifications surrounding the odontoid process: The crowned dens syndrome”, in Arthritis and Rheumatism, volume 28, number 12, →DOI, page 1417:

     Tomography revealed a disappearance of the infraoccipital calcium deposits (Figure 1B), which was confirmed by computed tomography.