Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Parietal bone

Paired bones forming the sides and roof of the cranium.

Key points

• Sides and roof of the skull.
• Sagittal, coronal and lambdoid sutures.
• Pterion at its anteroinferior angle.
• Parietal: membrane bone.
• Skull flat bones: intramembranous ossification.
• Bone: type I collagen + hydroxyapatite.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1488–1489, 1556
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 10, PDF pp. 140–141
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 7, PDF pp. 121–125, 126, 130

More from the head and neck

• Parietal lobe
• Parotid gland
• Pharyngeal constrictors
• Pharynx
• Phrenic nerve
• Pineal body
• Piriform cortex
• Pituitary gland
• Platysma
• Pons
• Postcentral gyrus
• Posterior cerebral artery

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