trabecula
[truh-bek-yuh-luh]
- Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- 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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Origin of trabecula
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The trabecular floor of the brain does not long remain simple.
The Origin of VertebratesWalter Holbrook Gaskell
There are also less obvious changes in the density of the shadow and in the arrangement of the trabecular structure of the bones.
The term caries is employed to indicate any diseased process associated with crumbling away of the trabecular framework of a bone.
Manual of SurgeryAlexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
trabecula
- any of various rod-shaped structures that divide organs into separate chambers
- 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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Word Origin
C19: via New Latin from Latin: a little beam, from trabs a beam
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trabecula
(trə-bĕk′yə-lə)- Any of the supporting strands of connective tissue projecting into an organ and constituting part of the framework of that organ.
- Any of the fine spicules forming a network in cancellous bone.
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