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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Notochord  \No"to*chord\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  the  back  +  E.  chord.]  (Anat.) 
  An  elastic  cartilagelike  rod  which  is  developed  beneath  the 
  medullary  groove  in  the  vertebrate  embryo,  and  constitutes 
  the  primitive  axial  skeleton  around  which  the  centra  of  the 
  vertebr[ae]  and  the  posterior  part  of  the  base  of  the  skull 
  are  developed;  the  chorda  dorsalis.  See  Illust.  of 
  {Ectoderm}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  notochord 
  n  :  a  flexible  rodlike  structure  that  forms  the  supporting  axis 
  of  the  body  in  the  lowest  chordates  and  lowest 
  vertebrates  and  in  embryos  of  higher  vertebrates 




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