parachordal plate

parachordal plate
parachordal plate n a cartilaginous plate that is formed of the fused parachordals and anterior notochord and gives rise to the ethmoid bone and certain other bones of the vertebrate skull called also basilar plate

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basal p. (def. 2).

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