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Parietal adj.

Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.

Resident within the walls or buildings of a college. "At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee."

(Anat.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to the parietes.

(b)

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.

(Bot.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; said of a placenta.

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Etymology of 'Parietal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Parietal" Quotes from Famous Books

... taste with your eyes, you do not walk with your teeth. There is no waste in nature. Every part has its special duty to perform. The part of the brain which lies in front of the ears has a different function from that which lies behind them. The parietal lobes of the brain are not placed in the skull for the same purposes which the frontal and occipital lobes represent. Every fibre has its function, every convolution its purpose. All that remains for us to do is to compare known forms ...

— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor

... different magnitudes."[160] And no investigator of homologies doubts that a considerable number of the bones which form the skull of any osseous fish are distinctly homologous with the cranial bones of man. The occipital, the parietal, and frontal, the bones which surround the internal ear, the vomer, the premaxilla, and the quadrate bones, may be given as examples. Now, if such close relations of homology can be brought about independently of any but the most remote genetic affinity, it would be rash to affirm dogmatically ...

— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... centers which mediate sensations of color are of course most closely associated with those other centers (probably the parietal) which receive sensations from the eye-muscles and which, therefore, mediate sensations which furnish space and position to the sensations of mere color. Now it is these occipital centers, mediators of light-sensations merely, ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

Words linked to "Parietal" : parietal lobe, parietal pericardium, parietal pleura, parietal cortex