Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Parietal lobe

The part of each hemisphere behind the central sulcus and above the lateral sulcus.

Key points

• Behind the central sulcus, above the lateral sulcus.
• Postcentral gyrus = sensory area.
• Named after the overlying parietal bone.
• Cerebral hemisphere: telencephalon.
• Cortex = grey matter on the surface, white matter beneath.
• CNS myelin: oligodendrocytes.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1562–1564
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 312, 334, 345
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

More from the head and neck

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

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