parietal

Parietal (literally "belonging to walls") may refer to:

• Parietal art, artwork done on cave walls or large blocks of stone
• Parietal callus, feature of the shell anatomy of some groups of snails
• Parietal eye, "third eye" of some animal species
• Parietal scales of a snake lie in the general region of the parietal bone
• Parietal wall, part of the margin of the aperture of a snail shell
• The term may also refer to an extension of bone, popularly known as a neck frill, on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia

El hueso parietal es un hueso del cráneo, plano, par, de forma cuadrilátera, con dos caras, interna (endocraneal) y externa (exocraneal), y cuatro bordes con sus respectivos ángulos.

Parietal (do latim tardio parietale), significa "relativo a parede". O termo é usado em Medicina para referir-se às paredes dos órgãos, como o estômago, intestinos, etc., e ainda para designar os seguintes termos anatômicos:

• Decídua parietal;
• Lobo parietal;
• Osso parietal;
• Peritônio parietal e
• Pleura parietal.

L'os parietal (o simplement parietal) és un os parell de la volta cranial, d'origen membranós.