(anatomy) notochord

(anatomy) The heartstrings.

(neuroanatomy) A branch of the facial nerve that traverses the middle ear cavity and the infratemporal fossa and supplies autonomic fibers to the sublingual and submandibular glands and sensory fibers to the anterior part of the tongue.

A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.

Of such animals.

(mathematics, music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of chords. / (music) Having an accompaniment of chords rather than a countermelody. / (zoology) Having a notochord; chordate

plural of chordate

The property of being chordal.

Relating to the chordamesoderm.

(anatomy) The axial mesoderm, which lies along the central axis under the neural tube and gives rise to the notochord.