| 释义 |
‖ paries Anat., Nat. Hist., etc.|ˈpɛərɪiːz|
Pl. parietes |pəˈraɪɪtiːz|.
[L. pariēs, parietem wall, partition-wall.]
A part or structure enclosing, or forming the boundary of, a cavity in an animal or plant body or other natural formation; a wall (of a hollow bodily organ, a cavity of the body or of a shell, an abscess, or wound, an ovary or capsule of a plant, a cell of a honey-comb or wasp's nest, etc.). Chiefly in pl.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The parietes of the two ventricles of the heart are of unequal strength and thickness. 1808Barclay Muscular Motions 543 Between this membrane and the dorsal parietes, are situated all the various convolutions of the intestine. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 191 In the opposite parietes of the ovarium of Brunonia. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 150 A central portion, which is termed the ‘paries’, which is attached by its base to the ‘basis’ of the shell. |