(pathology, neurology) Initialism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. / (physics) Initialism of coefficient of thermal expansion. / (databases, countable) Initialism of common table expression.

plural of CTE

Having a toothed margin, usually fish scales / Comb-like in shape.

A ctenoidean.

Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.

plural of ctenophore

Comb-shaped.

(zoology) A respiratory system, in the form of a comb, in some molluscs / (zoology) A row of spines in some insects

plural of ctenoidean

(archaic) Relating to the former group of fish Ctenoidei; ray-finned.