trabecula
Americannoun
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trabeculae
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Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
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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.
noun
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any of various rod-shaped structures that divide organs into separate chambers
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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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Origin of trabecula
1815–25; < New Latin trabēcula, Latin: little beam, equivalent to trabē ( s ) beam + -cula -cule 1
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The trabeculae may appear to be a random network, but each trabecula forms along lines of stress to provide strength to the bone.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The medial liver trabecula into which the enteron was seen to open, in the preceding figure, now opens ventrally to the yolk-sac as the anterior intestinal portal.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
Each node of a trabecula may be simple, i.e. have only one centre of calcification, or may be compound.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Using medical imaging as a guide, they recreated the delicate lattice known as trabeculae that gives bone its internal strength.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
Instead, it consists of trabeculae, which are lamellae that are arranged as rods or plates.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Cancellous bone looks like a sponge under the microscope and contains empty spaces between trabeculae, or arches of bone proper.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Compact bone is dense and composed of osteons, while spongy bone is less dense and made up of trabeculae.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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