pallial

English

Etymology

Latin pallium (“a mantle”).

Adjective

pallial (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially 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, 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.

2. Of or relating to the pallium.

Derived terms

• extrapallial
• intrapallial
• pallial chamber
• pallial line
• pallial nerve
• pallial sinus
• subpallial

References

• “pallial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.