Parietal eminence

Parietal eminence
Skull of a new-born child from the side. (Parietal eminence shown in red.)
Front view of the skull. (Parietal eminence pointed by arrows.)
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Identifiers
Latin	tuber parietale, eminentia parietalis
Dorlands /Elsevier	t_21/12827565
TA	A02.1.02.010
FMA	57080
Anatomical terms of bone []

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.

Human skull. Parietal eminence shown in red.

Left and right parietal bones. Parietal eminence shown in red.

Position of the parietal eminence indicated by the circle.

Child skull seen from top (Left) and seen from side (Right). Parietal eminence labeled as "Tuber parietale."

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)