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PALLIUM
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Irregular inflected form: pallia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pallium" is a kind of...):
cloak (a loose outer garment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pallium" is a kind of...):
vestment (gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
Synonyms:
mantle; pallium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pallium" is a kind of...):
cuticle; epidermis (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
Synonyms:
cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("pallium" is a kind of...):
neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)
Meronyms (parts of "pallium"):
Golgi's cell; Golgi cell (a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter)
cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)
frontal cortex; frontal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead)
prefrontal cortex; prefrontal lobe (the anterior part of the frontal lobe)
parietal cortex; parietal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head)
occipital cortex; occipital lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head)
temporal cortex; temporal lobe (that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying inside the temples of the head)
Meronyms (substance of "pallium"):
gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea (greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pallium"):
neocortex; neopallium (the cortical part of the neencephalon)
archipallium; paleocortex (the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum)
Holonyms ("pallium" is a part of...):
cerebrum (anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans)
