parietal

About 2.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity.

   Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the parietal cells of the gastric glands, located on the wall of the fundus of the stomach.

2. adjective Of or relating to the parietal bones.
3. adjective Of or relating to college living and, especially, its regulation.
4. adjective Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; said of a placenta.
5. noun Either of the two parietal bones, on the top and side of the skull.
6. noun Any of the scales of a snake that are located on the head and connected to the frontals towards the posterior.
7. noun A flat Roman wall tile with roughened surface, used as a base for plasterwork.
8. noun Dormitory rules governing visits from members of the opposite sex.

Similar words

outer somatic mural peripheral external marginal boundary osseous encephalic lateral

Often followed by

lobe and cortex cells bone peritoneum pleura bones cell lobes

Word family

parietals