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parietal bone

noun

, Anatomy.
  1. either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.


parietal bone

noun

  1. either of the two bones forming part of the roof and sides of the skull
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parietal bone1

First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences

He hopes that the other pieces of the parietal bone, or even a complete skull, might soon be found.

From Nature

While the original reconstruction of the dinosaur’s bone included only three epiparietals – or horns jutting out from the side of the parietal bone – the new specimens show that Medusaceratops had five.

At Stony Brook his voice crackled with excitement as he described how “astonishing” it was to discover that half the brain lies under the parietal bones, the back part of the top of the skull.

Its most usual seat is the tibia, but it is also met with in the femur, ulna, and parietal bone.

This bone extends anteriorly into the parietal bone from the suture of the interparietal and parietal.

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