Trabecula
/trəˈbɛkjʊlə/ noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small supporting beam.
- 2 rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen) wordnet
- 3 A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
- 4 A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
- 5 Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
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- 6 One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
- 7 A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.
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From Latin trabēcula (“small beam”), diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber”).