pallialadj.

1836 G. P. Deshayes in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 706/1 It is in this pallial sac that the animal establishes a current of water.

1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 426/2 Those parts are so short that they are without proper retractor muscles; whence it happens that the pallial impression in the shell is simple.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 462 Between the two lobes of the mantle, or pallium, is the pallial chamber.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 248/2 These papillae form pallial sense-organs, containing nerve-end bulbs.

1990 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 56 209/1 The glandular lining of the male pallial gonoduct agrees in morphology with the prostate gland of other cerithioideans.

1892 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 26 361 The rhinencephalon or olfactory part of the brain is much larger..in Echidna than in Ornithorynchus. The pallial part is also on a larger and more complicated plan.

1933 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19 7 Below the reptiles the entire pallial field is dominated by the olfactory system.

1965 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7) 495 [The commissures] cross partly in the lamina and partly in the fused adjacent portions of the median pallial walls.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 590 These masses include both the basal nuclei or striatum and tissues above it representing the pallial areas, which in some teleosts include a cortex of complex structure.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pallial adductor, the anterior adductor muscle of bivalve mollusks.

2002 Jrnl. Morphol. 254 65 A branch of the visceral nerve innervating the median pallial adductor muscle [of the cuttlefish Idiosepius] is characteristically thick.

1862 New Amer. Cycl. (new ed.) XIII. 71/1 Others [sc. pearls] are formed around particles of sand or other foreign bodies introduced into the pallial cavity.

1990 Jrnl. Zool. 222 534 The muscles, lying immediately beneath the epithelium, are mainly transverse, reducing the breadth of the pallial cavity.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 462 Between the two lobes of the mantle, or pallium, is the pallial chamber.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xiii. 207 Among the gill-filaments are numerous minute openings or ostia, which lead from the pallial chamber into the vertical water tubes of the gill plates.

1836 G. P. Deshayes in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 713/2 From the adhesion of the mantle to the shell there results a linear impression, to which M. de Blainville has given the name of palleal impression.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 216 The ‘pallial line’ or ‘pallial impression’.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 4) 270/1 If the pallial line be broken by an angular notch..continued inwards before its junction with the posterior muscular impression, then it may be certainly inferred that the animal had well developed muscular tubes or siphons for respiration.

1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) ii. 65 Hiatella..is a rock-borer, with the pallial line represented by a series of disconnected marks.

1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 129/1 The line which joins these scars, the pallial line, marks the margin of the attachment of the mantle.

1858 Rep. N. Carolina Geol. Surv. (N. Carolina State Geologist) 297 Tellina Lusoria... Pallial sinus deep; concentrically striate.

1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) ii. 57 In the Aralo-Caspian region, from Miocene to Recent, are found Adacna and Limnocardium, cockles adapted to a freshwater or brackish habitat, with long siphons and a pallial sinus.

1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe x. 573/2 Posteriorly, this [sc. the pallial line] may show an indentation (pallial sinus) indicating the position of the retracted siphons in the closed shell.