The major cord of nerve fibres running the length of an animal's body, especially a ventral cord in invertebrates that connects segmental nerve ganglia.
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Other cell bodies in the ventral nerve cord were also observed to occasionally express GFP.
This is in contrast to organisms such as annelids and arthropods, in which the main nerve cord is ventral.
In insects, as in all arthropods, the main nerve cord lies ventrally, rather than dorsally as in vertebrates.
The nerve ring and the nerve bundles that connect the nerve ring and the ventral nerve cord had dots of very faint staining.
The neural arches developed around the dorsal nerve cord, above the notochord.
Definition of nerve cord in US English:
nerve cord
noun
Zoology
The major cord of nerve fibers running the length of an animal's body, especially a ventral cord in invertebrates that connects segmental nerve ganglia.
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The nerve ring and the nerve bundles that connect the nerve ring and the ventral nerve cord had dots of very faint staining.
In insects, as in all arthropods, the main nerve cord lies ventrally, rather than dorsally as in vertebrates.
Other cell bodies in the ventral nerve cord were also observed to occasionally express GFP.
This is in contrast to organisms such as annelids and arthropods, in which the main nerve cord is ventral.
The neural arches developed around the dorsal nerve cord, above the notochord.