Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain.
WordNet
n. that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head
Wikipedia
The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals. The parietal lobe is positioned above the occipital lobe and behind the frontal lobe and central sulcus.
The parietal lobe integrates sensory information among various modalities, including spatial sense and navigation ( proprioception), the main sensory receptive area for the sense of touch ( mechanoreception) in the somatosensory cortex which is just posterior to the central sulcus in the postcentral gyrus, and the dorsal stream of the visual system. The major sensory inputs from the skin ( touch, temperature, and pain receptors), relay through the thalamus to the parietal lobe.
Several areas of the parietal lobe are important in language processing. The somatosensory cortex can be illustrated as a distorted figure — the homunculus ( Latin: "little man"), in which the body parts are rendered according to how much of the somatosensory cortex is devoted to them. The superior parietal lobule and inferior parietal lobule are the primary areas of body or spatial awareness. A lesion commonly in the right superior or inferior parietal lobule leads to hemineglect.
The name comes from the overlying parietal bone, which is named from the Latin paries-, meaning "wall".
Usage examples of "parietal lobe".
John Smith had an extremely well-developed brain tumor in the parietal lobe.
Injuries to the right parietal lobe, in fact, sometimes results in the inability of a patient to recognize his own face in a mirror or photograph.
Behind the central sulcus and above the lateral sulcus is the parietal lobe (puh-ry'ih-tal).
The reason the personality in charge is different is because the message is sent to the parietal lobe to filter out everything not relevant to that personality.
The parietal lobe simply filters out brain informationdatathat is not relevant to the mind at a specific time.
But with her Master and her sister Mediators she talks as if her parietal lobe were damaged.
The occipital lobe, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe, and the front lobes were all undamaged.
You see, the frontal lobe has become too involved with the parietal lobe of the brain, causing the inevitable biofeedback predicted by the magnificent Earth scientist Snorbert Weener in his work, Stybernetics, based on his constant association with pigs at the Massachusetts Institute of Wrectokgy.
At each pause she had felt a kind of tingling in her head, approximately in the left parietal lobe.
But it did reveal a particular kind of defect in your parietal lobe.
Most patients are there because of damage to the right parietal lobe.