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paries

American  
[pair-ee-eez] / ˈpɛər iˌiz /

noun

  • parietes
    plural
  1. Biology. Usually parietes. a wall, as of a hollow organ; an investing part.


paries British  
/ ˈpɛərɪˌiːz /

noun

  1. the wall of an organ or bodily cavity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of paries

1720–30; < New Latin, special use of Latin pariēs a wall, partition

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That paries proximus concerns us, in our present uneasy condition, more than one likes to think of.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton

To those who are not yet visibly assailed, and who possibly believe themselves secure, we can only give the warning: Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

He has seen the solecisms of his brother, Common Sense, exposed, and remembers that, —tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

From Latin paries, a wall; properly, a partition-wall, from the root of part or pare.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

After exposing the trachea, a longitudinal incision, about three-quarters of an inch in length, was made through its parietes at the third ring.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache

The anterior wall of the bladder is then exposed, uncovered by peritoneum; it must be opened with great care, also in the middle line, while the wound in the parietes is held aside by retractors.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

This cut divided the parietes and severed one of the coats of the colon.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

The external surface is rounded, except near the umbo, where the edge is carinated; growth almost equally upwards and downwards; the parietes and tectum are not separated by ridges.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

The parietes of the heart were thicker than those of a healthy heart, but thin when compared with its whole volume; whence it follows, that the cavities were enlarged.

From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren

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