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parietal

[ puh-rahy-i-tl ]

adjective

  1. Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
  2. Biology. of or relating to parietes or structural walls.
  3. Botany. pertaining to or arising from a wall: usually applied to ovules when they proceed from or are borne on the walls or sides of the ovary.
  4. pertaining to or having authority over residence, and especially visitation regulations between the sexes, within the walls or buildings of a college or university:

    a listing of the parietal regulations for the law students' dormitory.



noun

  1. Anatomy. any of several parts in the parietal region of the skull, especially the parietal bone.
  2. parietals. Also called parietal rules. campus regulations governing visits between members of opposite sexes to each other's dormitories or rooms.

parietal

/ əˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. anatomy biology of, relating to, or forming the walls or part of the walls of a bodily cavity or similar structure

    the parietal bones of the skull

  2. of or relating to the side of the skull
  3. (of plant ovaries) having ovules attached to the walls
  4. living or having authority within a college
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a parietal bone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • t·貹··ٲ adjective
  • ܲp··ٲ adjective
  • ٰԲp··ٲ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of parietal1

1590–1600; < Late Latin of, belonging to walls, equivalent to Latin pariet- (stem of 貹ŧ ) wall + - -al 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of parietal1

C16: from Late Latin 貹, from Latin 貹ŧ wall
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By giving tissues that would otherwise have been discarded — 38 samples from the temporal cortex, five from the frontal cortex and two from the parietal association cortices — they provided the doctors with an invaluable tool.

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Researchers also found activity as expected in regions of the brain that encode visual and auditory inputs, as well as the parietal lobe, which is known to be involved in numerical and calculation-related functions.

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MRI scans revealed that most of the brain activity was concentrated in the angular gyrus, a portion of the parietal lobe of the brain.

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In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production.

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Simultaneously they measured the activity of the parietal cortex, a part of neocortex that sends inputs to the entorhinal cortex.

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