PARIETAL BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parietal bone mean? 

• PARIETAL BONE (noun)
  The noun PARIETAL BONE has 1 sense:

1. either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium

  Familiarity information: PARIETAL BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIETAL BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("parietal bone" is a kind of...):

membrane bone (any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull)

Meronyms (parts of "parietal bone"):

entomion (the craniometric point at the tip of the angular part of the parietal bone that articulates with the temporal bone)

sphenion (the anterior tip of the parietal bone)

Holonyms ("parietal bone" is a part of...):

braincase; brainpan; cranium (the part of the skull that encloses the brain)

 Context examples 

Of, or relating to, or associated with the parietal bones.

(Parietal, NCI Thesaurus)

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, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)