parietal
adjective
of, relating to, or situated near the side and top of the skull or the parietal bone.
interparietal
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a word derived from
parietal.
Example Sentences
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The skull of this rat has narrower nasals than other adults from Two Buttes and a longer interparietal with a posterior median angle.
From A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado by Finley, Robert B.
The specific characters are: Sphenorbital fissure present; incisive foramina posterior to infraorbital canal; anterior prism of P4 rounded; interparietal relatively small; lambdoidal suture straight in region of interparietal, in Utah specimens.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
In males the crests encroach on the lateral borders of the interparietal; in females the crests approach the lateral borders of the interparietal but are more widely separated than in males.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.
The frontal is in contact with the interparietal in 63, and not in 24, specimens; the median frontonasal is in contact with the frontal in 13, and not in 74, specimens.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.
Cranially, subater differs from taylori in: presphenoid not shaped like an hour-glass; parapterygoid processes thicker medially; interparietal diamond-shaped instead of elongated and compressed.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Packard, Robert L.
