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nerve cord
noun
- 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.
- a solid double strand of nerve fibers along the length of the body in elongate invertebrates, as earthworms and insects, connecting with a pair of nerve ganglia at each body segment.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nerve cord1
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
In specimens with the proboscis drawn in, the nerve cord is of course doubled back on itself.
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Earlier than that, in 1839, Nasse had discovered that a severed nerve cord degenerates in its peripheral portions.
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But Helmholtz readily demonstrated the contrary, showing that the nerve cord is a relatively sluggish message-bearer.
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Some became greatly elongated, and had developed so that the thread surrounded the dorsal nerve-cord.
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The notochord is enclosed in a thick sheath of connective tissue continuous with a thinner sheath round the nerve cord.
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