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Pallial

Pal′li-al

,

Adj.

[L.

pallium

a mantle. See

.]

(Zool.)

Of or pertaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle;

as, the

pallial

line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell

. See Illust. of

.

Pallial chamber

(Zool.)

,

the cavity inclosed by the mantle.

–

Pallial sinus

(Zool.)

,

an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of

.

Definition 2024

pallial

pallial

English

Adjective

pallial ‎(not comparable)

Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks.
the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell
- 1998 May 8, Stanley R. Hart & Jerzy Blusztajn, “Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity”, in Science, volume 280, number 5365, DOI:10.1126/science.280.5365.883, pages 883-886:
  The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).
- 1859, Various, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3:
  Along a line nearly corresponding with the horny band which proceeds from the insertions of the shell-muscles and encircles the mantle below, the pallial wall is produced inwards and forwards into a membranous fold or ligament, which I will call the pallio-visceral ligament; and this pallio-visceral ligament becoming attached to various viscera, divides the great fifth chamber into an anterior inferior, and a posterior superior portion, which communicate freely with one another.
Of or relating to the pallium.

Derived terms

Derived terms

extrapallial
intrapallial
pallial chamber
pallial line

pallial nerve
pallial sinus
subpallial

References

pallial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913