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- New Latin · borrowed fromchorda tympanī“cord of the tympanum”
- English todaychorda tympani
Borrowed from New Latin chorda tympanī (“cord of the tympanum”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
chorda tympani
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
New Latin chorda tympanī