pallium
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Activity increased in the pallium, a higher brain region associated with complex behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
And even the Roman toga was contrasted with the Greek pallium cloak, in an effort to articulate Roman identity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Benedict has been laying in state without any papal regalia, such as a crosier, a silver staff with a crucifix, or a pallium, a band of cloth worn around the neck worn by archdiocesan bishops.
From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2023
He was clad in a miter, red vestments and simple black shoes, but not the silver staff with crucifix or pallium, the vestment symbolizing papal authority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Stragulum, strag′ū-lum, n. the mantle or pallium in ornithology.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Their analysis revealed that the fibers in the birds’ pallia are organized in a manner strikingly similar to those of fibers in mammal cortexes.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
The neurons that fired in agreement with the crows’ action were located in the pallia, the researchers report today, also in Science.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
The scientists compared the images of the birds’ pallia with those of rat, monkey, and human cortices.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020
Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is their special duty to sprout the wool that is woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.*
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Also being buried with Benedict are the palliums, distinguished hallmarks of his clerical career.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Also placed inside will be three palliums - bands of wool cloth worn around the neck by popes, archdiocesan bishops and other bishops with territorial jurisdiction, to signify their roles as shepherds of their flocks.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023
He was specially anxious to obtain a formal recognition of the archiepiscopal sees in Ireland, by the granting of palliums.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Here the good nuns weave their wool into palliums, which are subsequently worn by different metropolitans of the church.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
His Holiness had received him with open arms, and appointed him Apostolic Legate; but he declined to give the palliums, until they were formally demanded by the Irish prelates.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack