Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the parietal bones: more fully called
os parietale .
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Examples
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The external surface (Fig. 132) is convex, smooth, and marked near the center by an eminence, the parietal eminence (tuber parietale), which indicates the point where ossification commenced.
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"The os parietale may here be broken," the doctor thought, and while he was thinking of the surgical consequences of such a blow, the thing was done and the doctor had not seen how the blow was delivered, whether a knife had been drawn by the victim, etc.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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"Chez tous les singes, les plis posterieurs se developpent les premiers; les plis anterieurs se developpent plus tard, aussi la vertebre occipitale et la parietale sont-elles relativement tres-grandes chez le foetus.
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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