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Parietal

adjective

Of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium.

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"Parietal" Quotes from Famous Books

... paresis, therefore, inclines us to the conception that this disorder of the believing process is more frontal than parietal, more of the anterior association area than of the posterior association area of the brain. And if we can trust our intuitions so far, the perverted believing process is thus more a motor than a sensory process, more a disorder ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... 16. Yellow skin abundantly tattooed, absence of hair on face or body. Cranium: plagiocephaly on the left frontal and right parietal regions, obliquely-placed eyes, narrow forehead, prominent orbital arches, line of the mouth horizontal as in apes, lateral incisors of upper jaw resembling the canines with rugged margins, excessive zygomatic and maxillary development, tactile sensibility very ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... flower has a corolla of 5-7 petals, violet-colored, concave, half oval, with pubescent borders; at its base a flat scale. Stamens free, numerous, thick filaments, anthers bilocular. In the female flower the perianth is the same as in the former, the stamens sterile. Ovary unilocular, with 2-4 parietal placent with many ovules. Fruit as large as a man's head, with thin woody pericarp and many seeds ...

— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

Words linked to "Parietal" : anatomy, general anatomy