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- 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 vertebrae and
the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda
dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.
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