parietal

Definitions

1. 1.Resident within the walls or buildings of a college. At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).
2. 2.(Anat.) (a) Of pertaining to the parietes. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.
3. 3.(Bot.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
4. 4.(Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
5. 5.(Zoöl.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is (a) Of pertaining to the parietes. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals called?
• What is attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta called?
• What is one of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes called?