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PARIETAL BONE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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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)

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