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Definition of Pallial

1. a. Of or pretaining 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 Bivalve.

Definition of Pallial

1. pertaining to a part of the brain [adj]

Medical Definition of Pallial

1. Of or pretaining 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. Pallial chamber, an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. Origin: L. Pallium a mantle. See Pall. (19 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Pallial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is through this passage, or indirectly through the pores of the gill-plates, that the water introduced into the lower sub- pallial space must pass on its ..."

2. A Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology: An Inductive Study in Animal and by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"(K) With your forceps lift the left lobe and note the space (pallial, or mantle cavity) between it and the right lobe. (/) Note how far dorsally the mantle ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"I had for six mouths been working in the Laboratory of Professor Arnold Lang, on the subject of the pallial organs of the ..."

4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"As a matter of fact, the original left half of the pallial complex (which would now lie on the right) has entirely disappeared in many ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Mantle open in front, with two pallial sutures; external gill-plates ... Two siphons, more or less united, with papillose orifices; pallial line with a ..."

6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"Mantle largely closed ; pedal orifice extremely small; a fourth pallial orifice present; siphons fairly long, united ; foot very rudimentary and without a ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The vessels of the ventral network arise from the internal pallial trunk and ... The transverse pallial vessels. One or two vessels, which arise from the ..."

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