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Word Meanings - PERICHORDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.

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  • COLUMN
    A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
  • COLUMNARITY
    The state or quality of being columnar.
  • AROUND
    1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
  • EPICHORDAL
    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.
  • COLUMNIATION
    The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
  • COLUMNED
    Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
  • NOTOCHORD
    An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull
  • PERICHORDAL
    Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.
  • COLUMNATED
    Having columns; as, columnated temples.
  • COLUMNAR
    Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium , epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure , a structure
  • NOTOCHORDAL
    Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.
  • SEMICOLUMNAR
    Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
  • SEMICOLUMN
    A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
  • INTERCOLUMNIATION
    The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt. Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek,
  • SUBCOLUMNAR
    Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.
  • SUPERCOLUMNIATION
    The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
  • INTERCOLUMNAR
    Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.
  • RUN-AROUND
    A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.
  • SUBNOTOCHORDAL
    Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

 

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