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posteroparietal

posteroparietal adjective: relating to the posterior of a wall of a body part.

Adjective

posteroparietal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the posterior of a wall of a body part.
    • The brain CT scan findings in the emergency department were consistent with an acute to subacute infarct in the posteroparietal/occipital lobe region, and the follow-up MRI showed scattered areas of restricted diffusion, suggestive of infarcts in the bilateral cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres...2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin of posteroparietal

From postero- + parietal.

Questions about posteroparietal

What does posteroparietal mean?
Posteroparietal means relating to the posterior of a wall of a body part.
What part of speech is posteroparietal?
Posteroparietal is an adjective.

Words near posteroparietal in the dictionary

  1. posteromedian
  2. posteromesal
  3. posteromesial
  4. posteromesially
  5. posteropalmar
  6. posteroparietal
  7. posteroplantar
  8. posteroplantarly
  9. posteroproximal
  10. posteroproximally
  11. posterorolandic

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