trabecula

IPA: trɑbˈɛkjʌɫʌ

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

Examples of "trabecula" in Sentences

t., trabecular part of brain box. t.c., trabecula.th. h., thyrohyal.
Osteoblasts and osteoclasts on trabecula of lower jaw of calf embryo.
81 Osteoblasts and osteoclasts on trabecula of lower jaw of calf embryo.
Its spongy, interconnected cells match the natural bone trabecula structure, thereby allow integration into the surrounding viable bone.
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.
Grapsoidae, the closest agreement prevails in all the essential conditions of their structure; if the same plan of structure is slavishly followed in everything else, in the organs of sense, in the articulation of the limbs, in every trabecula and tuft of hairs in the complicated framework of the stomach, and in all the arrangements subserving aquatic respiration, even to the hairs of the flagella employed in cleaning the branchiae, -- why have we suddenly this exception, this complete difference, in connection with aerial respiration?