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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MECKELIAN

MECKELIAN Meck *e "li *an, a. (Anat. )

 

Defn: Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist. Meckelian cartilage, the cartilaginous rod which forms the axis of the mandible; -- called also Meckel's cartilage.