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Definition: Parietal |
ParietalAdjective1. (anatomy) of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium; "parietal lobe". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parietal" was first used: sometime around 1425. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 1. of or pertaining to the walls of a cavity. 2. pertaining to or located near the parietal bone, as the parietal lobe. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Laterality | Adjective: lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The parietal bones form the top and sides of the skull. (references) | |
The sagittal suture joins together the two parietal bones of skull. (references) | ||
The lambdoid suture unites the occipital bone with the parietal bones of the skull. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Parietal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parietal" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 166 | 24,220 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "parietal": inferior parietal lobe ♦ middle part of inferior parietal lobule ♦ parietal bone ♦ Parietal Cells ♦ parietal lobe ♦ parietal pericardium ♦ parietal placentation ♦ parietal pleura. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "parietal": occipito-parietal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parietal lobe | 37 |
parietal | 13 |
parietal cell | 6 |
function lobe parietal | 5 |
bone parietal | 4 |
brain lobe parietal | 4 |
cortex parietal | 4 |
antibody cell parietal | 3 |
meningioma parietal | 3 |
antibody parietal | 3 |
parietal cell gastric | 3 |
operculum parietal | 2 |
e lobos occipital parietal | 2 |
parietal peritoneum | 2 |
lobulo parietal | 2 |
parietal pharmacology | 2 |
inferior lobule parietal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "parietal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جداري (wall), داخلي (domestic, female, in, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, residential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 头顶骨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | parietal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pariëtaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | parietaalilohko (parietal lobe), päälakilohko (parietal lobe), päälaen lohkon aivokuori (parietal cortex), lobus parietalis (parietal lobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pariétal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | parietal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλευρικόσ (costal, lateral), τοίχου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק"ק"י (vertical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fali (mural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parietale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 部 (area at top of head, calvaria), (top of the head, vertex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とうちょうぶ (area at top of head, calvaria), とうちょう (attending a government office, bug, climbing to the summit, interception, island government office, isotonic, Tang Dynasty, top of the head, vertex, wiretap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arietalpay parietal (murder, paring), da ilha de paros. (various references) parietal. (various references) париетальный. (various references) parijetalni, univerzitetski (academic, academical, university). (various references) parietal (parietal bone). (various references) parietal, väggställd, som rör livet vid college, hörande till hjässan. (various references) parietal, yankafa kemiği (parietal bone), yan (ancillary, aslant, asquint, awry, by-, bye-, collateral, flank, flanking, lateral, side, sidelong, sideward, subordinate), organ çeperine ait, kafatası yan kemiği (parietal bone), üniversite sınırları içinde oturmayla ilgili. (various references) тім'яний, внутріунівеситетський, парі"тальний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | parietalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parietal": parietals. (additional references) | |
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"Parietal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mariental, Paintal, pareital, paretal, parictal, Pariente, Paroletta, patietal, perietal, perimetral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "parietal" (pronounced perī"utul) |
| 5 | -ī" u t u l | societal. |
| 4 | -u t u l | capital, Capitol, congenital, digital, extramarital, genital, marital, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, pivotal, premarital, skeletal, vegetal, versatile, volatile. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skittle, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vestal, vital, vittle, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: apteral, apteria, partial, plaiter, platier. | |
-2 letters: aerial, aplite, atrial, earlap, lariat, latria, palate, palier, palter, pirate, plater, realia, retail, retial, tailer, triple. | |
-3 letters: alate, alert, altar, alter, apart, apter, areal, ariel, artal, artel, atria, atrip, irate, laari, later, leapt, lepta, liter, litre, palea, paler, palet, parae, parle, pater, pearl, peart, peril, petal, pieta, pilar, pilea, plait, plate, pleat, plier, prate, ratal, ratel, reata, relit, retia, riata, talar, taler, taper, tapir, telia, tepal, terai, tiara, tiler, trail, trial, tripe. | |
-4 letters: airt, alae, alar, alit, aper, area, aria, aril, atap, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, leap, lear, lept, liar, lier, lipa, lipe, lira, lire, lite, pail, pair, pale, para, pare, part, pate, peal, pear, peat, pelt, peri, pert, pial, pier, pile, pita, plat, plea, plie, prat, raia, rail, rale, rape, rapt, rate, real, reap, rial, riel, rile, ripe, rite, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, tapa, tape, tare, tarp, teal, tear, tela, tepa, tier, tile, tire, tirl, trap, trip. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, air, ait, ala, ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, ire, lap, lar, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lip, lit, pal, par, pat, pea, per, pet, pia, pie, pit, rap, rat, rei, rep, ret, ria, rip, tae, tap, tar, tea, tel, tie, til, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: parietals, perinatal, psalteria. | |
+2 letters: altarpiece, biparental, intraplate, parliament, penetralia, planetaria, praetorial, premarital, spermatial. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, altarpieces, caterpillar, disparately, ipsilateral, malpractice, operational, parliaments, particulate, paternalism, paternalist, patrilineal, perinatally, planarities, planetarium, plantigrade, practicable, proletarian, proletariat, transalpine, trapezoidal, uniparental. | |
+4 letters: alphabetizer, antiparallel, antiparticle, antipleasure, archetypical, biparentally, capitularies, caterpillars, drapeability, imperatorial, inapparently, laparotomies, laureateship, malpractices, metaphorical, operatically, partialities, particulates, paternalisms, paternalists, perorational, planetariums, plantigrades, pleasantries, premalignant, premaritally, proletarians, proletariats, recapitalize, recapitulate, replantation, reputational, separability, spectatorial. | |
+5 letters: alphabetizers, antiparticles, antipleasures, apportionable, appropriately, approximately, capillarities, comparatively, coplanarities, drapabilities, explanatorily, explorational, expurgatorial, extrapolating, extrapolation, extrapolative, graphitizable, hyperrational, impracticable, intrapersonal, ipsilaterally, laureateships, operationally, parasexuality, parenthetical, parfocalities, parliamentary, particleboard, particularise, particularize, paterfamilias, paternalistic, pentobarbital, perambulating, perambulation, permutational, phalansteries, phenobarbital, plantocracies, practicalness, precapitalist, preparatively, preparatorily, prevocational, problematical, protogalaxies, quadruplicate, quasiparticle, reapplication, recapitalized, recapitalizes, recapitulated, recapitulates, repairability, repeatability, replantations, spreadability, supernational, uniparentally, xerophthalmia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 69 65 74 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .. . - .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r i e t a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0069 0065 0074 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067847571866778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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