Definition of "parietal lobe" [parietal lobe]

• The division of each hemisphere of the brain that lies beneath each parietal bone. (noun)

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• "At any rate cases with hyperphantasia in my recent Dementia Praecox series (American Journal of Insanity, 1914-15) appear to be correlated with parietal lobe anomalies and atrophies."