trabeculae
noun
Meaning
- A small supporting beam.
- A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
- A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
- Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
- One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
- A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.
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