title: Parietal
text: # Parietal
  
  Parietal (literally: "pertaining or relating to walls") is an adjective used predominantly for the parietal lobe and other relevant anatomy
  
  Parietal may also refer to:
  
  ## Human anatomy
  
  ### Brain
  
  * The parietal lobe is found in all mammals. The human brain has a number of connected, related, and proximal suborgans and bones which contain the "parietal" in their names.
     * Inferior parietal lobule, below the horizontal portion of the intraparietal sulcus and behind the lower part of the postcentral sulcus
     * Parietal operculum, portion of the parietal lobe on the outside surface of the brain
     * Parietal pericardium, double-walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessel
     * Posterior parietal cortex, portion of parietal neocortex posterior to the primary somatosensory cortex
     * Superior parietal lobule, bounded in front by the upper part of the postcentral sulcus
     * Parietal branch of superficial temporal artery, curves upward and backward on the side of the head
  * Parietal-temporal-occipital (PTO), includes portions of the parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes
  * Parietal bone, of the skull
     * Parietal foramen (disambiguation)
     * Parietal eminence, external surface of the parietal bone
  
  ### Other
  
  * Parietal cell, in the stomach
  * Parietal placentation, refers to the formation, type and structure, or arrangement of placentas
  * Parietal pleura, attached to the wall of the thoracic cavity
  
  ## Non-human anatomy
  
  * Parietal callus, feature of the shell anatomy of some groups of snails
  * Parietal eye, "third eye" of some animal species
  * Parietal scales, the scales on the head of the snake
  * Parietal wall, part of the margin of the aperture of a snail shell
  * The neck frill on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia
  
  ## Other
  
  * Parietal art, art on natural cave surfaces
  