Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a type of vertebra found in some Batrachia, in which the cartilaginous elements from which the centra develop are present on both the dorsal and the ventral faces of the notochord.
- Surrounding the chorda dorsalis, or notochord, of a vertebrate: as, perichordal cells; perichordal tissue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Around the notochord. See
epichordal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Around the
notochord .
Etymologies
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peri- + chordal
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Examples
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Nevertheless, the fundamental idea of it -- the belief that the skull is formed from the head-part of the perichordal axial skeleton, just as the brain is from the simple medullary tube, by differentiation and modification -- remained.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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