Parietal:Adjective from the Latin "parietalis" meaning "belonging to the wall" that the ancient anatomists used to designate the wall, as of a body cavity.
For examples, there are the:
- Parietalbone -- the main side bone of the skull.
- Parietallobe-- the main side lobe of the brain (it is beneath the parietal bone).
- Parietal pericardium-- the outer membrane around the heart.
- Parietalperitoneum-- the membrane lining theabdominal cavity(as opposed to thevisceralperitoneum that envelops the abdominal organs).
