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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

pallium

a mantle. See

(Zool.)

Of or pertaining 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

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Pallial chamber

(Zool.)

the cavity inclosed by the mantle.

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Pallial sinus

(Zool.)

an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of