How to Use parietal in a Sentence

parietal

adjective
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  • Think of the parietal peritoneum as a membrane corset that wraps around the center of your body and abdomen, says Gregg.
    — Kelly O'Mara, Outside Online, 8 May 2020
  • The parietal pleura is a membrane that folds back on itself to form a two-layered sac.
    — Howard Cohen Miami Herald (tns), al, 26 July 2022
  • The parietal cortex is above the hippocampus, another part of the brain that plays a major role in learning and memory.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The outer layer is called the parietal pleura and attaches to the chest wall, according to the National Library of Medicine.
    — Howard Cohen Miami Herald (tns), al, 26 July 2022
  • The second was the anterior insula, which is folded into the deep fissure between the parietal and frontal lobes.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Thus there were chaperones, parietal rules and other awkward devices for denying them the privacy to do it.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2021
  • CT scan images of the skull roof (frontal bone in pink, parietal in green) a chicken, the birdlike dinosaur Zanabazar, the primitive dinosaur Herrerasaurus, and Proterosuchus.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
  • Cortical folding appears to decrease with age across large swaths of the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes in both young people with autism and controls.
    — Rachel Zamzow, Scientific American, 9 July 2018
  • H2 blockers stop the action of histamine, which stimulates parietal cells to produce hydrochloric acid.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • The parietal pleura is a membrane that's bound by connective tissue to the inner surface of the chest wall, and plays a major role in the formation and removal of pleural fluid, according to Science Direct.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2022
  • When the study subjects who had pledged to spend money made generous picks, the fM.R.I. scans showed greater activity in a portion of the brain, the temporo-parietal junction, associated with altruism.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • However, not all archaeologists would agree that the newfound prints meet the definition of parietal art, an expert told Live Science.
    — Nicoletta Lanese, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The current operating theory, though, is that these stitches are caused by irritation of the parietal peritoneum.
    — Kelly O'Mara, Outside Online, 8 May 2020
  • The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in the crash, according to medical records.
    — Amir Vera and Keith Allen, CNN, 7 June 2021
  • Co-author Frederick Lepore wonders if the parietal lobes were the locus of Einstein’s ability to envision space-time curvature.
    — Jenny Blair, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2015
  • These include the temporo-parietal junction within the temporal lobe and the visual pathway, specifically the occipital lobe.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2018
  • As the images flipped rapidly past, the researchers looked for activity in a region of the canine brain called the parietotemporal cortex, analogous to humans’ parietal cortex, which is known to help people rapidly process numbers.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Neuroimaging research suggests that dialogue in a story activates a part of the brain known as the right temporo-parietal junction, a key region for what’s called theory of mind, or the ability to attribute mental and emotional states to others.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • For example, the concept dog elicits brain activity in prefrontal, parietal and temporal cortices.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Another color combo—turquoise and green—boosted gamma waves in the frontal and parietal lobes, heightening awareness and creativity, this time through activation of the parasympathetic nervous system (which calms you down).
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Those that spent on others had increased activity in the temporal parietal junction and ventral striatum, parts of the brain associated with empathy and happiness respectively.
    — Alex Palmer, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The right superior parietal lobule, an area used to construct one's total body image, also had reduced connectivity and a reduced density of gray matter, indicating less neuron activity.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 7 May 2020
  • Specifically, brain activity began in temporal regions instead of frontal, and there was no activity in occipital (visual) cortex or parietal areas.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Those three cortical regions are the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, which are associated with thinking, auditory processing, and sensory information, respectively.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
  • Think of the parietal peritoneum as a membrane corset that wraps around the center of your body and abdomen, says Gregg.
    — Kelly O'Mara, Outside Online, 8 May 2020
  • The parietal pleura is a membrane that folds back on itself to form a two-layered sac.
    — Howard Cohen Miami Herald (tns), al, 26 July 2022
  • The parietal cortex is above the hippocampus, another part of the brain that plays a major role in learning and memory.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The outer layer is called the parietal pleura and attaches to the chest wall, according to the National Library of Medicine.
    — Howard Cohen Miami Herald (tns), al, 26 July 2022
  • The second was the anterior insula, which is folded into the deep fissure between the parietal and frontal lobes.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Thus there were chaperones, parietal rules and other awkward devices for denying them the privacy to do it.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2021

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