Pallial

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
2. Of or relating to the pallium.

Example Sentences

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

The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).

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.

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