velum
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Stretching between the two flocculi, and attached midway to the sides of the nodule, is a thin, white, semilunar-shaped plate of nervous matter, called the inferior medullary velum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
In boisterous weather, as we learn from Martial and other authors, these difficulties were so great that the velum could not be spread.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
Foot divided into two, posterior half bearing the operculum; a wide epipodial velum; shell turbinated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
The velum interpositum is an expanded fold of pia mater, which passes into the anterior of the hemispheres through the great transverse fissure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
The position of this mouth is at the velum.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
