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Definition of Chorda
1. n. A cord.
Definition of Chorda
1. a primitive sort of spinal column [n CHORDAE]
Medical Definition of Chorda
1. A tendinous or a cord-like structure. See: cord. Origin: L., cord Chorda chirurgicalis, surgical catgut. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorda
Literary usage of Chorda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"On the one hand there is a good deal of evidence to shew a connection between
sensations of taste and the chorda tympani nerve. Cases have occurred in which ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The one set, and that the more important, belongs to the chorda tympani nerve
... Leaving the facial nerve the chorda tympani passes through the tympanic ..."
3. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1879)
"UR chorda stimulated for 12"; very slight secretion after interval of 20"; ...
chorda gives no secretion. 11.28. Sympathetic readily gives secretion. ..."
4. Microscopical Researches Into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of by Theodor Schwann (1847)
"OF THE chorda DORSALIS. usually largest in the centre, and becoming somewhat ...
The rudiments of the chorda dorsalis in the conical interstices of the ..."
5. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"The fourth branch, the chorda tympani, is so important that it demands ...
The fifth branch is given off opposite the origin of the chorda tympani and ..."
6. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"chorda DORSA'LIS, Donai cord. The axis, around which, according to Von Baer, the
first ports of the foetus are formed,—the rudiment of the future vertebral ..."
7. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"Thus, sensory fibres can enter the chorda from the third division of the trigeminus,
which may run ccn tri petal ly to the facial to be distributed along ..."
8. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"While the sheath of the chorda dorsalis is thus formed from the inner and lower
... in a membranous investment, similar to that of the chorda dorsalis. ..."
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