Parietal
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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
Human Anatomy
- Inferior parietal lobule, below the horizontal portion of the intraparietal sulcus, and behind the lower part of the postcentral sulcus
- Parietal bone of the skull
- Parietal branch of superficial temporal artery, curves upward and backward on the side of the head
- Parietal cell in the stomach
- Parietal eminence, external surface of the parietal bone
- Parietal foramen, back part of the parietal bone and close to the upper or sagittal border
- Parietal lobe of the brain
- Parietal operculum, portion of the parietal lobe on the outside surface of the brain
- Parietal pericardium, double-walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels
- Parietal placentation, refers to the formation, type and structure, or arrangement of placentas
- Parietal pleura, attached to the wall of the thoracic cavity
- Parietal-temporal-occipital, (PTO) includes portions of the parietal, temporal and occipital lobes
- Posterior parietal cortex, portion of parietal neocortex posterior to the primary somatosensory cortex
- Superior parietal lobule, bounded in front by the upper part of the postcentral sulcus
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