CORDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cords mean? 

• CORDS (noun)
  The noun CORDS has 1 sense:

1. cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth

  Familiarity information: CORDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cords; corduroys

Hypernyms ("cords" is a kind of...):

pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

The two small rod shaped pieces of elastic cartilage on both sides of the aryepiglottic fold which supports the epiglottis laterally and the vocal cords.

(Cuneiform Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)

An angiocentric vascular tumor composed of epithelioid endothelial cells arranged in short cords and nests in a distinctive myxohyaline stroma.

(Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds, and the springs of their lives, with no special brain center but scattered throughout their spinal cords, could not be tapped by any modern weapons.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cricothyroid muscle is innervated by the superior laryngeal nerve's external branch and acts to tense the vocal cords thus altering voice pitch.

(Cricothyroid Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

An operation on the vocal cords or on the spinal cord.

(Cordectomy, NCI Dictionary)

Microscopically, chordomas are composed of cells that form cords and lobules, separated by mucoid intercellular tissue.

(Chordoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The spleen is enlarged due to infiltration of the cords of the red pulp by granulocytes.

(Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

It is characterized by the presence of epithelioid or spindle cells forming cords or nests, separated by fibrovascular septa.

(Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by paroxysmal spasmodic muscular contraction of the vocal cords.

(Laryngospasm, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The middle part of the larynx; the area where the vocal cords are located.

(Glottis, NCI Dictionary)