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|Latin
|colspan="2"|tuber parietale, eminentia parietalis
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|colspan="2"|[subject #32 ]
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|Precursor
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|MeSH
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[t_21/12827565]
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The external surface of the parietal bone is convex, smooth, and marked near the center by an eminence, the parietal eminence (parietal tuber), which indicates the point where ossification commenced.