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Words related to chordates

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  • chordata

    the phylum comprising the chordates.

  • endostyle

    (zoology) A longitudinal ciliated groove on the ventral wall of the pharynx which produces mucus to gather food particles, found in urochordates and cephalochordates and in the larvae of lampreys.

  • enterocoele

    A coelom or coelomic cavity developed from the wall of the archenteron in some invertebrates.

  • hemichordate

    belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.

  • nerve cord

    a single hollow tract of nervous tissue that constitutes the central nervous system of chordates and develops into the spinal cord and brain in vertebrates.

  • notochord

    a rodlike cord of cells that forms the chief axial supporting structure of the body of the lower chordates, as amphioxus and the cyclostomes, and of the embryos of the vertebrates.
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