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Parietal   Listen
noun
Parietal  n.  
1.
(Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
2.
(Zool.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.





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"Parietal" Quotes from Famous Books



... toward the setting sun. A few crudely made clay vessels of the ordinary Tarahumare type were found alongside of them. On gathering the three skulls I was at once struck by a circular hole in the right parietal bone of one of them. As they undoubtedly belonged to the Tarahumares, the question at once occurred to me: Can it be possible that this barbaric tribe, not particularly advanced in the arts, was capable of ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz
... age 16. Yellow skin abundantly tattooed, absence of hair on face or body. Cranium: plagiocephaly on the left frontal and right parietal regions, obliquely-placed eyes, narrow forehead, prominent orbital arches, line of the mouth horizontal as in apes, lateral incisors of upper jaw resembling the canines with rugged margins, excessive zygomatic and maxillary development, ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero


Words linked to "Parietal" :   anatomy, parietal pleura, parietal placentation, parietal cortex


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