parietal bone

1. 1.

   either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium

   Broadermembrane bone

   Part ofcranium

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Questions about parietal bone

What does parietal bone mean?

parietal bone means "either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium".

Is parietal bone a common word?

parietal bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.