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Parietal bone   /pərˈaɪətəl boʊn/   Listen
Parietal bone

noun
1.
Either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium.





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... amputation of the legs she miscarried and made a good recovery. Neugebauer reported the history of a case of a woman who, while near her term of pregnancy, committed suicide by jumping from a window. She ruptured her uterus, and a dead child with a fracture of the parietal bone was found in the abdominal cavity. Staples speaks of a Swede of twenty-eight, of Minnesota, who was accidentally shot by a young man riding by her side in a wagon. The ball entered the abdomen two inches above the crest of ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


Words linked to "Parietal bone" :   membrane bone, cranium, braincase, entomion, sphenion, brainpan


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