Ep`i*chor"dal (?), a. [Pref. epi- + chordal.] Anat.

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

 

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