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trabecula

[ truh-bek-yuh-luh ]

noun

plural trabeculae
  1. Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
  2. Botany. one of the projections from the cell wall that extends across the cavity of the ducts of certain plants, or the plate of cells across the cavity of the sporangium of a moss.


trabecula

/ ³Ù°ùəˈ²úÉ›°ìÂáÊŠ±ôÉ™ /

noun

  1. any of various rod-shaped structures that divide organs into separate chambers
  2. any of various rod-shaped cells or structures that bridge a cavity, as within the capsule of a moss or across the lumen of a cell
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ³Ù°ù²¹Ëˆ²ú±ð³¦³Ü±ô²¹°ù, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ù°ù²¹Â·²ú±ð³¦î€ƒu·±ô²¹°ù ³Ù°ù²¹Â·²ú±ð³¦Â·³Ü·±ô²¹³Ù±ð [tr, uh, -, bek, -y, uh, -lit, -leyt], adjective
  • inter·³Ù°ù²¹Â·²ú±ð³¦î€ƒu·±ô²¹°ù adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trabecula1

1815–25; < New Latin ³Ù°ù²¹²úŧ³¦³Ü±ô²¹, Latin: little beam, equivalent to ³Ù°ù²¹²úŧ ( s ) beam + -cula -cule 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trabecula1

C19: via New Latin from Latin: a little beam, from trabs a beam
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They found that as few as 50 trabeculae almost doubled the vertebra’s ability to carry weight, they report today in iScience.

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They also have scanned hand bones of other members of Australopithecus, including Lucy’s species, A. afarensis, but the pattern of use was not preserved in that species’s trabeculae.

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In the interior of the ventricle is a network of muscular trabeculae.

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This coat sends multitudes of fine trabeculae into the interior of the organ, which subdivide it into numbers of minute compartments, in which the red, highly vascular, spleen pulp is contained.

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The trabeculae are united together by these thickened internodes, and the result is a fenestrated septum, which in older septa may become solid and aporose by continual deposit of calcite in the fenestrae.

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