Meckelianadj.

1859 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Royal Soc. 9 397 The incudal and the adjacent extremity of the Meckelian cartilage.

1896 Philos. Trans. 1895 (Royal Soc.) B. 186 53 The articular bone which occupies the position of the Meckelian cartilage passes backward behind the dentary.

1992 Jrnl. Fish Biol. 41 43 Trabeculae, parachordal plates, Meckelian cartilages and hyposymplectics are present at hatching.

1859 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Royal Soc. 9 397 [In the mammal] the incudal and Meckelian elements are so completely applied to the purposes of the organ of hearing, that they are no longer capable of supporting the ramus.

1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Meckelian bar, same as Meckel's cartilage.

1890 Cent. Dict. at Rod Meckelian rod... Also called Meckel's cartilage.

1918 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 208 106 The cavity of the jaw..becomes completely enclosed by these bones, and so converted into a closed canal (Meckelian canal).

1984 Arch. d'Anat. Microsc. et de Morphol. Expér. 73 291 This nodule, which we have called the symphyseal Meckelian islet, is isolated from Meckel's cartilage, of which only very small calcified islets are left as intramandibular traces after endochondral ossification.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) viii. 270 Rarely (as in common frogs) an anterior part of the [Meckel's] cartilage may ossify as a Meckelian bone.

1996 Anat. Rec. 245 25 Meckelian chondrocytes isolated enzymatically were plated at a low density.