a. [ad. mod.L. suboccipitālis: see SUB- 1 b.]
1. Situated under the occiput or below the occipital bone.
Suboccipital nerve, the first cervical nerve. S. triangle (see quot. 1911).
1733. trans. Winslow’s Anat. (1756), II. 75. The Sub-Occipital Nerves.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 367/1. A … depression, called the suboccipital fossa, or cervical fossa.
1877. Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol., 192. There is no suboccipital nerve in the Frog.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Suboccipital angle, that between lines drawn from auricular point to inion and opisthion.
1911. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11), XIX. 53/2. When the superficial muscles and complexus are removed from the back of the neck, the sub-occipital triangle is seen beneath the occipital bone.
2. Situated on the under surface of the occipital lobe of the brain.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 152/2. Inconstant Fissures … Adoccipital … Suboccipital.
