chorda tympani

短语

发音

US /ˌkɔɹ.də ˈtɪm.pəˌnaɪ/

词形变化

chordae tympanorum 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    医学

词源

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

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