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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pallial en · ADJ

Etymology

Latin pallium (“a mantle”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
    • The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ). 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:
    • 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. 1859, Various, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3:
    • the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the pallium.

Deriveds

pallial chamber · pallial line · hyperpallial · extrapallial · mesopallial · intrapallial · pallial nerve · pallial sinus · entopallial · subpallial