Definition of "nerve-cord" [nerve-cord]

• A cord composed of nervous tissue; a nerve. Also nerve-chord. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He succeeds in showing -- to his own satisfaction at least -- that in the formation of new segments in _Nais_ and _Chætogaster_ a strand of cells appears between the alimentary canal and the nerve-cord, and that from this axial strand the hæmal muscle-plates grow out dorsally round the alimentary canal and the neural muscle-plates ventrally round the nerve-cord (see Fig. 14)."
• "In the thoracic region of Crustacea it is not the whole segment with part of the carapace which corresponds to a vertebra, but merely the part round the ventral nerve-cord (endophragmal skeleton)."
• "Annelids by the "giant-fibres" or neurochordal strands which lie close above the nerve-cord, a view held by Kowalevsky, [414] and for a time by"