parietal lobe

What does parietal lobe mean?

parietal lobe means "that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head".

What is another word for parietal lobe?

Close synonyms include parietal cortex. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parietal lobe a common word?

parietal lobe 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parietal lobe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.