Definitions for notochord

notochord no·to·chord

Spelling: [noh-tuh-kawrd]
IPA: /ˈnoʊ təˌkɔrd/

Notochord is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in notochord (cdhnooort).

Definitions for notochord

noun

  1. a rodlike cord of cells that forms the chief axial supporting structure of the body of the lower chordates, as amphioxus and the cyclostomes, and of the embryos of the vertebrates.

Origin of notochord

1840-50; noto- + chord1 (in the sense of ‘a cordlike anatomical structure’)

Examples for notochord

The skeleton is completely ossified and the notochord removed.

Ridge of hypoblast, which will become separated off as the notochord.

Nevertheless, traces of the notochord persist in the back-bone of these fishes.

The notochord is persistent and unconstricted, and the limbs are archipterygia.

Moreover, this rod was unsegmented, for the notochord is devoid of segmentation.

This structure is called the notochord (a string down the back).

The notochord is restricted and replaced by ossified vertebræ.

They have no backbone in the strict sense, but they have this notochord.

No fresh features of interest are to be seen in the notochord.

In all Tunicata except Larvacea all trace of the notochord is lost in the adult.

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