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PARIES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: parietes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

stomach walls

Synonyms:

paries; wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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)

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