Left parietal part of head

Looks like

The top and upper side of the head over each parietal bone.

What it does

Protects the parietal lobes; its skin feels via branches of the trigeminal and upper neck nerves.

Keeping it well

A regional term. A skull fracture here can tear the middle meningeal artery — headache and drowsiness after a blow is an emergency.

Related conditions

• Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
• Botulism
• Chickenpox (varicella)
• Chronic neuropathic pain
• Chronic pain syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Lyme disease
• Myasthenia gravis
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Rabies
• Restless legs syndrome
• Shingles (herpes zoster)
• Tetanus
• Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies