Where does “頭頂葉” come from?

頭頂葉 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

頭頂葉 (Japanese): a parietal lobe

Definitions

  1. a parietal lobe

Ancestry of “頭頂葉”, step by step

頭頂葉 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseleaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter...
2Middle Chinese

via Japanese 頭頂

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese頭頂the top of the head; a vertex; a parietal
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