Citations:cordate
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English citations of cordate
Most likely a misspelling of chordate[edit]
noun[edit]
- 1999, Nicole Le Douarin, Nicole M. LeDouarin, Chaya Kalcheim, The Neural Crest, page 90:
- According to Gans and Northcutt (1983), one can consider that vertebrates have evolved from the basic body plan of the cordates by addition, rostrally to the notochord, of a "new head.”
- 2012, Jean-Marie Robine, James W. Vaupel, Bernard Jeune, Longevity: To the Limits and Beyond (page 175)
- The fruit fly Drosophila, like other arthropods, also share[sic] with the cordates the developmental trait of statistical fluctuations of cell fate that are likely to lead to wide individual variation in cell number.
adjective (or attributive)[edit]
- 1973, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov, Great Soviet Encyclopedia - Volume 20, page 528:
- Charts of presumptive primordia in the early gastrula stage have been made for various cordate animals.
Adjective: (philosophy) having a heart[edit]
- 1994, D H M Brooks, David Preece, The Unity of the Mind, page 94:
- For example, the statement that the function of the heart is to pump blood means that the heart is there (in cordate animals) because it pumps blood, and pumping blood is a consequence (result) of the heart's being there.