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PARIETAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium
Example:
parietal lobe
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)
Pertainym:
parietal bone (either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium)
Context examples:
A horizontal groove on the surface of the parietal lobe extending backward from the postcentral sulcus forming the ascending, superior and inferior parietal convolutions.
(Intraparietal Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)
The impaired absorption of vitamin B-12 is secondary to atrophic gastritis and loss of gastric parietal cells.
(Pernicious anemia, NCI Thesaurus)
A terminal branch of the anterior cerebral artery that runs in the pericallosal sulcus and branches to form the inferior and superior internal parietal arteries and precuneal artery supplying the cerebral cortex.
(Pericallosal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
A long deep groove with an internal and external portion in the cerebral cortex creating a boundary between the parietal lobe and cuneus.
(Parieto-Occipital Fissure, NCI Thesaurus)
H+/K+ ATPase is an integral membrane protein of the gastric parietal cell.
(Esomeprazole, NCI Thesaurus)
The principal stimulants of acid secretion at the level of the parietal cell are histamine (paracrine), gastrin (hormonal), and acetylcholine (ACh; neurocrine).
(Gastric Acid Secretion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The artery that delivers blood to the anterior portion of the parietal lobe.
(Anterior Parietal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
It is caused by neurological damage in the brain, specifically in the occipital or parietal lobes.
(Agnosia, NCI Thesaurus)
Mutation of the gene is associated with parietal foramina 2.
(ALX4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
ECL cells respond to gastrin by releasing their secretory products and this source of histamine acts as the positive paracrine stimulator of the release of hydrochloric acid from the parietal cell.
(Enterochromaffin-Like Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
