parietal

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adjective of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium

From Latin parietālis, from pariēs (“wall”).

This corresponds to the similar area described in the overlying parietal pleura. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? — The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
In the surgeon’s deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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