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• a  of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium
  parietal lobe

• Parietal lobe This part of the brain processes sensory information about the surrounding world, orienting you in time and space.
• But it's your parietal lobe a central mass of tissue that processes sensory input that may have the most transporting effect.
• Illustration by Christian Northeast for PTI If you've ever prayed so hard that you've lost all sense of a larger world outside yourself, that's your parietal lobe at work.

News & Articles

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• This Brain Part Decides What Goes Viral on Social Media
  Ever heard of the Temporo-Parietal Junction? No, it's not a train station, nor is it a 60's-style rock group. The TPJ, as it's also known, is the area of the brain that gets activated when we're thinking about how to share something and who to share it with If you want to make something go viral on Facebook or Twitter , in other words, the TPJ is where you want to hit — because it lights up like ...
  July 8, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Dr Ben Carson in Fort Worth Star Telegram
  Basically, we do multiple lumpectomies,Carson said. "We remove the temporal frontal lobe, parietal lobe and occipital lobe on the affected side to get all the neurons on that side out. Seizures are caused by malfunctioning neurons."