trabecula

American  

[truh-bek-yuh-luh] / trəˈbɛk yə lə /

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.

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trabecula British  

/ trəˈbɛkjʊlə /

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

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Other Word Forms

• intertrabecular adjective
• trabecular adjective
• trabeculate adjective

Etymology

Origin of trabecula

1815–25; < New Latin trabēcula, Latin: little beam, equivalent to trabē ( s ) beam + -cula -cule ¹

Example Sentences

They found that as few as 50 trabeculae almost doubled the vertebra’s ability to carry weight, they report today in iScience.

From Science Magazine

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.

From Science Magazine

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

In others the peripheral ends of the septa are united only by bars or trabeculae, so that the theca is perforate, and in many such perforate corals the septa themselves are pierced by numerous perforations.

From Project Gutenberg