trabecula
[truh-bek-yuh-luh]
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noun, plural tra·bec·u·lae [truh-bek-yuh-lee] /trəˈbɛk yəˌli/.
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.
Nearby words
- tr.,
- tra,
- tra-la,
- trabeate,
- trabeated,
- trabecular bone,
- trabecular reticulum,
- trabeculoplasty,
- trabeculotomy,
- trabs
Origin of trabecula
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Examples from the Web for trabecular
The trabecular floor of the brain does not long remain simple.
The Origin of Vertebrates|Walter Holbrook GaskellThe term caries is employed to indicate any diseased process associated with crumbling away of the trabecular framework of a bone.
Manual of Surgery|Alexis Thomson and Alexander MilesThere are also less obvious changes in the density of the shadow and in the arrangement of the trabecular structure of the bones.
trabecula
noun plural -lae (-ˌliː) anatomy botany
Word Origin for trabecula
C19: via New Latin from Latin: a little beam, from trabs a beam
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trabecula
[trə-bĕk′yə-lə]
n. pl. tra•bec•u•lae (-lē′)
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