To find out more, he looked at 218 radiographs of the lateral cervical spine, where the external occipital protuberance appears, of people aged between 18 to 30-years-old.

To find out more, he looked at 218 radiographs of the lateral cervical spine, where the external occipital protuberance appears, of people aged between 18 to 30-years-old.

An x-ray provided by Shahur shows 24.5mm external occipital protuberance in a 58-year-old male. Scientific Reports David Shahur, a biomechanics researcher and clinician at the University of The ...

They believe the growth of a "external occipital protuberance" has become more frequent because we spend so much time on our phones.

These horns or “spikes,” which clinicians call an “external occipital protuberance,” were first noted in 1885, but thought to be so rare that French scientist Paul Broca — credited for ...

This anatomical feature is called an external occipital protuberance, or EOP. The possible cause of this shift in weight? You probably guessed it.

A study reported that young people are likely to have skull growths because of technology, but they likely aren't cause for concern.

Last week the media was briefly focused on the external occipital protuberance, a fancy name for a bony bump at the back of the head. This fascination centered on whether or not the bump was more ...

The bony growth, which is known as an “external occipital protuberance,” can be found at the back of the skull, just above the base of the neck.

Millions of parents in the 1980s must have been dumbfounded when kids around the world proclaimed that they'd been hit in the "external occipital protuberance" during a school yard fight, or that ...