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PARIES (parietes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paries mean? 

PARIES (noun)
  The noun PARIES has 1 sense:

1. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structureplay

  Familiarity information: PARIES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARIES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

paries; wall

Context example:

stomach walls

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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