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chord·al

(kōr'dăl),
Relating to any chorda or cord, especially to the notochord.
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chordal

adjective Referring or pertaining to the notochord; notochordal.
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chord·al

(kōr'dăl)
Relating to any chorda or cord, especially the notochord.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Usually, we address prolapse separately with native chordal transfer or Gore-Tex chordate.
Changes of meter, tempo, or key mark eight structural subdivisions, including contrasting, affective minor-key segments on "Te ergo quaesumus" and "miserere nostri." Salieri nevertheless differentiates many of the hymn's lines and phrases by shifting between chordal and polyphonic vocal textures, sustaining a declamatory style through much of the piece.
After consultations with specialists in structural heart disease and cardiothoracic surgery, the patient ultimately underwent cardiac surgery consisting of very gentle septal myectomy focusing more midventricular at the basilar septum, reorientation of the posterior medial papillary muscle head, resection of the tethering secondary chordae to the A1 segment of the mitral valve, and chordal shortening and tacking of the chordae to the A1 and A2 segments of the mitral valve.
Cusp-level chordal shortening for rheumatic mitral regurgitation.
The chordal Frobenius distance measure is defined as follows ([3] and references therein):
Then [{[f.sup.k]}.sup.[infinity].sub.k=0] is equicontinuous on U with respect to the chordal metric on P[.sup.1.sub.K].
(On-X LTI) will launch its Chord-X Mitral Valve Chordal Repair System, the company said on Wednesday.
4.2 Choosing Proper Transmitting Vectors Using a Maximum Chordal Distance Criterion
Furthermore we intend to verify whether the property of being Cohen- Macaulay Gorenstein (for chordal graphs) having linear resolution transfer from the glued graph to original graphs and vice versa.
In [14] it is proved that block graphs are exactly the diamond-free chordal graphs.
As a by-product, it is proved that the class of probe block graphs is the intersection between the classes of chordal graphs and probe diamond-free graphs.
The piano accompaniment is patterned and makes use of quartal harmonies and some parallel chordal structures.