See Also: occipital bone(medicine)
Bone, occipital(health)
occipital angle of parietal bone(medicine)
mastoid margin of occipital bone(medicine)
mastoid border of occipital bone(medicine)
basal part of occipital bone(medicine)
lambdoid border of occipital bone(medicine)
basilar part of the occipital bone(medicine)
basilar process of occipital bone(medicine)
occipital border of parietal bone(medicine)

wink(1) (iou) and occipital bone (medicine)


wink(1) (iou)



wink noun1. ME.
[from WINK verb1.]
A closing of the eyes for sleep; a (brief) spell of sleep, a nap. Usu. in forty winks, a wink of sleep, etc. below. ME.
J. K. Jerome Every night I woke up at seven o'clock and never got a wink afterwards.
The action or an act of winking; a glance or significant movement (now a closing and opening) of one eye, esp. as a signal expressing command, assent, invitation, collusion, friendliness, etc. E16.
M. Gee Bill emphasized his one foreign phrase with a long rolling wink. E. Blair Oh aye! smirked Moira..giving them a coy wink. Guardian Contrary to all the nods and winks of senior..policy-makers.
a. A brief moment, as being the time it takes to wink. L16.
b. The slightest amount. Chiefly in neg. contexts. L16.
c. In time-and-motion study, a unit of time equivalent to one two-thousandth of a minute. Orig. US. M20.
A temporary closure or flicker of the eyelid. E17.
Sir W. Scott The smallest twitch of the features, or wink of the eyelid.
Phrases: a wink of sleep emphatic a very brief spell of sleep (chiefly in neg. contexts). forty winks: see FORTY adjective. in a wink any moment now, in a trice. nudge, nudge, wink, wink: see NUDGE noun. sleep a wink: see SLEEP verb. tip the wink to: see TIP verb4 1.
winkless adjective (rare) without a wink, unwinking M19.

occipital bone (medicine)


occipital bone


The bone forming the rear (and rear bottom) of the skull.