Parietal
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Parietal (literally "belonging to walls") may refer to:
- Parietal placentation
- Parietal lobe of the brain
- Parietal bone of the skull
- Parietal scales of a snake lie in the general region of the parietal bone
- Parietal cell in the stomach
- Parietal pleura
- Parietal pericardium
- Parietal wall, part of the margin of the aperture of a snail shell
- Parietal eye, "third eye" of some animal species
- 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
- Parietal art, artwork done on cave walls or large blocks of stone
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