Adjective: parietal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more parietal |
| Superlative | most parietal |
Sample Sentences
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Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the parietal cells of the gastric glands, located on the wall of the fundus of the stomach.
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The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […] [2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:]
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At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. [1856, B. H. Hall, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
Adjectives inflected like parietal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin parietālis, from pariēs (“wall”). See: Latin Adjectives '
parietālis'.