parietal foramen

English

Noun

parietal foramen (plural parietal foramina)

  1. An opening in the parietal bone for the emissary vein.
    • 2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian‎:
      Loss of the parietal foramen is a trait that we see very early in the evolutionary line leading to mammals.
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