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interparietal, a. (n.) Anat.|-pəˈraɪɪtəl| [inter- 4 a.] Situated between the right and left parietal bones of the skull.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 254/2 The interparietal suture of the human skull. Ibid. 473/2 The interparietal bone..is considerable in the dogs. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., Romiti and others consider that the interparietal bone of mammals is represented in man by the whole of the upper squamous and non-cartilaginous part of the occipital bone. B. n. The interparietal bone; in fishes, ‘the median bone of the posterior part of the roof of the skull, now generally called supraoccipital’ (Cent. Dict.). |