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• n  back part of the head or skull

• She was slashed from occiput to chin; her neck and arms were clawed; 50 stitches had to be taken.
• An abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy .

News & Articles

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• The FDA Issues Class 1 Recall for Stryker’s Oasys Midline Occiput Plate Due to a Key Defect, Reports Parker Waichman LLP
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class 1 recall – the most serious of all recall classes – for the Stryker Oasys Midline Occiput Plate, which is used in cervical spinal fusion surgery, following reports of post-operative fracture of a key piece of the device, notes Parker Waichman LLP. The law firm evaluates cases of defective drugs and medical devices, among other things ...
  Sept. 4, 2013 - PRWeb