Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated beneath or below the parietal bone or lobe.

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Examples

  • The medial surface of the parietal lobe (Fig. 727) is bounded behind by the medial part of the parietoöccipital fissure; in front, by the posterior end of the cingulate sulcus; and below, it is separated from the cingulate gyrus by the subparietal sulcus.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • It is separated from the medial part of the superior frontal gyrus by the cingulate sulcus, and from the precuneus by the subparietal sulcus.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • The inferior parietal lobule (lobulus parietalis inferior; subparietal district or lobule) lies below the horizontal portion of the intraparietal sulcus, and behind the lower part of the postcentral sulcus.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

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