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organ of zuckerkandl

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables
or-gan of zuck-erkan-dl
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chromaffin body derived from the neural crest located at the bifurcation of the aorta or at the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery. It may be the source of a paraganglioma.

Etymology

First described by Emil Zuckerkandl, a professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna, in 1901.

Inflected Forms

organs of Zuckerkandl (plural)

Questions

What does organ of zuckerkandl mean?
A chromaffin body derived from the neural crest located at the bifurcation of the aorta or at the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery. It may be the source of a paraganglioma.
Where does organ of zuckerkandl come from?
First described by Emil Zuckerkandl, a professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna, in 1901.

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