Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trabecula"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Trabecula \Tra*bec"u*la\, n.; pl. {Trabecul[ae]} (-l[=e]). [L.,
a little beam.] (Anat.)
A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in
the framework of an organ part.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trabecula
n : rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ
into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure
of an organ (as in the spleen)
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