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What does suboccipital mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.
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This began with palpation of the suboccipital, cervical, and cranial thoracic region to detect tissue tenderness and texture changes, as well as vertebral rotation.
In contrast to patients with primary cough headache, they all had occipital or suboccipital headache.
With forward head postures, shortening occurs in the suboccipital muscles and lengthening takes place in the cervical and thoracic erector spinae muscles.
Gross total resection was achieved via suboccipital craniotomy.
The range of motion of her neck was restricted to 45 degrees bilaterally and there was moderate tenderness to palpation in the suboccipital portion of her neck.
Objective: We sought to describe the 3-dimensional organization of connective tissues in the suboccipital region.

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