They’re bony structures at the base of the skull on the occipital bone, one on each side of the brain stem, called the foramen magnum. Just like any bone, the occipital condyle can be fractured ...

Your occipital lobes are located underneath the occipital bone at the back of your head. You have two occipital lobes, one in each hemisphere of your brain. Because of its location at the back ...

The occipital lymph nodes are located outside of the occipital bone, not within the skull itself. These nodes filter the lymphatic vessels running through the scalp.

The occipital lobe is so named because it rests below the occipital bone of the skull. It is also the smallest of the lobes. There are actually two occipital lobes — one on each hemisphere of ...

A suboccipital craniotomy is a type of surgery that involves removing a small piece of bone at the base of the skull called the occipital bone. Surgeons do this to access a part of the skull ...

A child of almost four expired after much suffering from an arrow wound that penetrated the left of his skull (the occipital bone). A young man of about seventeen years burned to death cruelly ...