subpialadj.
/sʌbˈpʌɪəl/, /sʌbˈpiːəl/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈpiəl/, /ˌsəbˈpaɪəl/ Anatomy and Medicine.
Located or occurring under the pia mater.
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1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XII. 465 Meshes or spaces in the tissue of the pia (subpial space).
1932 W. Penfield Cytol. & Cellular Pathol. Nerv. Syst. II. ix. 435 These feathered cells are probably of the same order as Golgi's epithelial cells and if completely stained would prove to have subpial expansions like the Golgi cells.
1968 Brain 91 272 The whole cortical ribbon in all these cases was permeated by a dense network of fine glial fibres..condensed in the subpial zone where an orderly array of glial cells was found.
2006 Clin. Neurol. & Neurosurg. 108 234 Similar foci were found in subpial and in subependymal tissues.
Derivatives
subˈpially adv.
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1942 P. C. Bucy in Dis. Basal Ganglia (Assoc. for Res. Nerv. & Mental Dis.) xvi. 589 The posterior part of the block was removed subpially mutilating this region considerably.
2004 Developmental Biol. 270 394/1 Granule cell precursors that make up the external granule layer..migrate subpially to eventually populate the cerebellar surface.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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