Pallial

Origin

Latin pallium ("a mantle").

Full definition of pallial

Adjective

1. 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
• May 8, 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 Chapter , 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