English Explanatory Dictionary

chorda tympani

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A branch of the facial nerve that traverses the middle ear cavity and the infratemporal fossa and supplies autonomic fibers to the sublingual and submandibular glands and sensory fibers to the anterior part of the tongue.

Pronunciation

/ˌkɔɹ.də ˈtɪm.pəˌnaɪ/

Word forms

chorda tympani chordae tympanorum

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin chorda tympanī (“cord of the tympanum”).

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