PARIES (parietes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: parietes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does paries mean? 

• PARIES (noun)
  The noun PARIES has 1 sense:

1. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

  Familiarity information: PARIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

paries; wall

Context example:

stomach walls

Hypernyms ("paries" is a kind of...):

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paries"):

abdominal wall (a wall of the abdomen)