sinciput – English noun declension

English noun forms of sinciput

Noun: sinciput
Singularsinciput
Pluralsincipita; sinciputs

Sample Sentences

  • The cranial anomalies occurred either in the occiput or the sinciput, approximately twice as often in the occiput as in the sinciput.
  • Such lesions have been considered to be inoperable when they involved the sinciput. [1964, International Abstracts of Surgery, volume 119, page 629:]
  • Between these two extremes lie the sinciput presentation and the brow presentation. Thus there are four distinct attitudes: vertex, sinciput, brow, and face (Figure 15-7). [1997, Robert K. Creasy, Management of Labor and Delivery, page 375:]
  • I learnt to develop a ‘feel’ for the sinciput and the occiput as these landmarks feel different abdominally, and also their ‘whereabouts’ in relationship to the pelvic brim. Therefore, when descent and flexion were taking place, I learnt to ascertain how the positions of the sinciput and occiput would change in relationship to each other and in relationship to the pelvic brim. [2003, Sara Wickham, Midwifery: Best Practice, volume 1, page 79:]

Nouns inflected like sinciput

sinciput, occiput,

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sinciput (“half a head”; “smoked hog’s cheek or half-jowl”; (transferred senses): “brain”, “head”), whence also the French sinciput. See: Latin Nouns 'sinciput', French Nouns 'sinciput'.

Verbs referencing "sinciput"

French Nouns sinciput.