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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