The parietal bones /pəˈraɪɨtəl/ are bones in the human skull which when joined together form the sides and roof of the cranium. Each bone is roughly quadrilateral in form and has two surfaces four borders and four angles. It is named from the Latin paries (-ietis) wall.
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