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 Definitions of nerve cord  [ɜrv]  

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Definition of 'nerve cord' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) nerve cord
the hollow dorsal tract of nervous tissue that constitutes the central nervous system of all chordates and that developed as the spinal cord and brain of vertebrates.

2.  nerve cord
a double strand of nerve fibers in elongate invertebrates, as earthworms, that connects with a pair of nerve ganglia at each body segment.

Etymology:  (1875–80)


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