Notochord : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Notochord	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Notochord
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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
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[91] and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of {Ectoderm}.