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parietal
/pɚˈaɪətəl/
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What does parietal mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity.
- Of or relating to the parietal bones.
- Of or relating to college living and, especially, its regulation.
More meanings (5)
adjective
- Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; said of a placenta.
noun
- Either of the two parietal bones, on the top and side of the skull.
- Any of the scales of a snake that are located on the head and connected to the frontals towards the posterior.
- A flat Roman wall tile with roughened surface, used as a base for plasterwork.
- (informal) Dormitory rules governing visits from members of the opposite sex.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɚˈaɪətəl/
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A human parietal with a piece missing that had evidently been taken out, was found beneath the rock-shelter of Entre-Roches near Angouleme.
Thirteen are noted as round, 7 as ovoid, 4 as oval, several had broad parietal and narrow frontal regions producing a pyriform norma verticalis.
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In the surgeon’s deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon.
The head more or less elongated, the parietal bones widest at the base and gradually approaching to each other as they ascend, and the condyls of the lover jaw being on the same line with the upper molar teeth.
Bejau describes a woman of forty from whom he excised an excrescence resembling a ram's horn, growing from the left parietal region.