How to Use parietal in a Sentence

parietal

adjective
  • 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
  • That’s an awful lot of neural real estate for a chip implanted in the parietal to cover.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Thus there were chaperones, parietal rules and other awkward devices for denying them the privacy to do it.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2021
  • The parietal cortex, on the other hand, is responsible for controlling the body.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • 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 second was the anterior insula, which is folded into the deep fissure between the parietal and frontal lobes.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • An autopsy determined a frontal-parietal skull fracture occurred that was consistent with blunt force trauma.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That’s because all that vigorous motion can jostle and aggravate the parietal peritoneum.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Repeatedly twisting your torso can also irk your parietal peritoneum, Carter adds.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Electrodes were placed on the top and center of the volunteer’s head, near the medial parietal cortex—the part of the brain that completes visual scene processing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The researchers didn’t study the prefrontal or parietal cortices, where the majority of number neurons are located in monkeys.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • During the book reading, the right temporal parietal junction was activated, but this did not happen during the screen time condition.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2025
  • On the plus side, a key area of the brain called the right superior parietal volume tended to be smaller for older adults with lower fitness, but didn’t shrink for older adults with higher fitness.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Barnett’s group was able to examine the entire brain, including the parietal cortex, the region that’s considered the hub for processing numbers.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Four months in the hospital During that time, Gomez said Catherine had surgery to remove parts of her frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes on the left side of the brain.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For example, the concept dog elicits brain activity in prefrontal, parietal and temporal cortices.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some older research suggests irritation to the outer membrane of the diaphragm, called the parietal peritoneum, may cause side stitches, and the jostling of your torso during running might increase friction in this area.
    — Sarah Klein, Outside, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The parietal and motor cortices provide similar signals, Donoghue says, so some other brain region may hold the key information that would result in truly natural movement.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Brain scans showed those who received liraglutide lost nearly 50% less volume in the frontal, temporal, parietal and total gray matter − areas of the brain that control memory, learning, language and decision making.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024

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