parietal bone

The parietal forms the roof of the skull.

Bone even, boring and features:

  • 2 faces
  • 4 Edges
  • 4 angles

faces

  • Outer face is convex, smooth and lateral
  • Internal surface is concave and medial with anterior grooves that correspond to branches of the middle meningeal artery.

edges

  • Superior Edge/Sagittal/Parietal
  • Anterior/Front/Coronal Edge
  • Posterior Edge/Occipital/Lambdoidea
  • Lower Edge/Scaly/Temporal

angles

  • Front Angle
  • Sphenoidal Angle
  • mastoid angle
  • Occipital Angle



PARIETAL - EXTERNAL VIEW

 

Source: SOBOTTA, Johannes. Atlas of Human Anatomy. 21 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan, 2000.

PARIETAL - INTERNAL VIEW

 

Source: SOBOTTA, Johannes. Atlas of Human Anatomy. 21 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan, 2000.

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