parial

comparative more parial · superlative most parial

1. Belonging to or forming a part of a pair.

   The sternum, moreover, consists of two separate bones, which are parial, and were united to each other on the median line apparently by cartilage only.

   1896, Marsh, Othniel Charles, The dinosaurs of North America, page 168

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   In the vertebral embryo the first appearance of the parts of the skeleton, in gristle or bone, is a segmental one ; in fishes the muscular system shows much, and in all Vertebrates a little, of the like seo-mental constitution of the trunk : the same idea is suggested by the symmetrical and parial origins of the nerves, and physiologists have mentally recognised a corresponding segmental condition of the myelon or spinal chord, which is visibly exemplified in certain fishes.

   1866, Owen, Richard, On the anatomy of vertebrates, Longmans, Green

   A row of foramina is always present just within the sharp edge of the superior border beyond, and still within these a few others are scattered about; one or two isolated, though parial, nutrient and vascular foramina are found at corresponding points, along the sides of the mandibles of all these vultures.

   1908, Annual Report - New York State Museum 1908: Vol 3 Apendixes 6-7, University of the State of New York, page 23