Crossword clues for parietal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parietal \Pa*ri"e*tal\, n.
(Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
(Zo["o]l.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
Parietal \Pa*ri"e*tal\, a. [L. parietalis, fr. paries, -ietis, a wall: cf. F. pari['e]tal. Cf. Parietary, Pellitory.]
Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
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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.
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(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the parietes.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "pertaining to the walls of a cavity in the body," from Late Latin parietalis "of walls," from Latin paries (genitive parietis) "wall" (of a building), of unknown origin. In U.S. also "pertaining to the residents and rules of a college or university" (1837).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity. 2 Of or relating to the parietal bones 3 Of or relating to college living and, especially, its regulation. 4 Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; said of a placenta. n. 1 (context skeleton English) Either of the two parietal bones, on the top and side of the skull. 2 Any of the scales of a snake that are located on the head and connected to the frontals towards the posterior.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium; "parietal lobe"
Wikipedia
Parietal (literally "belonging to walls") may refer to:
- Parietal art, artwork done on cave walls or large blocks of stone
- Parietal callus, feature of the shell anatomy of some groups of snails
- Parietal eye, "third eye" of some animal species
- Parietal scales of a snake lie in the general region of the parietal bone
- Parietal wall, part of the margin of the aperture of a snail shell
- The term may also refer to an extension of bone, popularly known as a neck frill, on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia
Usage examples of "parietal".
Robertson, Rizzoli, Tait, Hamilton, Brodie, Denis, Dickie, Goyrand, and many others mention extroversion of viscera from parietal defects.
His skull was fractured at the parietal eminence and the pericranium stripped off, leaving a bloody tumor near the base of the fracture about two inches in diameter.
The more frequently the kid is reinfected, the faster the parietal spot grows.
From the standpoint of thermoregulation, the division of the brain into a cerebellum and a cerebrum with temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes is meaningless.
The bulging in the vicinity of the parietal region accords remarkably with speculations upon the location of the auditory memory in that region, such as those in the American Naturalist, July, 1888, and the fact that injury of that part of the brain may cause loss of memory of the meaning of words.
His skull was fractured at the parietal eminence and the pericranium stripped off, leaving a bloody tumor near the base of the fracture about two inches in diameter.
In a cloth on a bench opposite were rolled up a portion of the malar bone, some fragments of the os frontis, one entire right parietal bone, detached from its fellow along the sagittel suture, and from the occipital along the lambdoidal suture, perhaps taking with it some of the occipital bone together with some of the squamous portion of the temporal bone.
The lack of oxygen carried by the occipital artery, as well as the parietal branch of the superficial temporal artery and the deep temporal artery, has caused some damage in the infraorbital nerve affecting speech, as well as the superorbital nerve and the facial nerve.
Let us return to the parietal foramen and the anomalous carnassial teeth of this Otaria: at the present rate we shall not have described half the Phocidae before we reach the Cape.
Perhaps the difference was not so much an additional 200 cubic centimeters as some specific developments in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes which provided us with analytical ability, foresight and anxiety.
Our ability to read and make maps, to orient ourselves spatially in three dimensions and to use the appropriate symbols-all of which are probably involved in the development if not the use of language -are severely impaired by lesions in the parietal lobes, near the top of the head.
The parietal lobe appears to be involved in all human symbolic language and, of all the brain lesions, a lesion in the parietal lobe causes the greatest decline in intelligence as measured by activities in everyday life.
Also, Cautiousness (high development on the parietal eminence) and Firmness (a lofty sagittal suture from behind the bregma to the front of the obelion).
A lesion of the angular gyrus of the neocortex, in the parietal lobe, results in alexia, the inability to recognize the printed word.
John Smith had an extremely well-developed brain tumor in the parietal lobe.