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PARIES
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Irregular inflected form: parietes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
Example:
stomach walls
Synonyms:
paries; wall
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("paries" is a kind of...):
stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))
Domain category:
anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paries"):
abdominal wall (a wall of the abdomen)
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