parietin

[Lat. parietina, the distinctive name of a species of Parmelia (q.v.).) [USNICACID.] pa-ri-ět-ine, s. [Latin parietina =old, fallen. down walls, ruins.] A piece of a wall; a ruin. "Ruines of such bathes found in this island, amongst those parietines and rubbish of old Roman townes."Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , p. 238. pa-ri-ět-o-, pref. [Latin paries, gen it. par i etis); o connective.) (See compound.) parieto-mastoid, a. Anat.: Of or belonging to the mastoid and to the parietal bones. There is a parieto-mastoid suture. parieto-splanchnic, parieto-visceral, a . Comp. Anat.: Of or belonging to that nervous ganglion which supplies the walls of the mantle, gills, and the viscera in the higher mollusca.