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TRABECULA
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Irregular inflected form: trabeculae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("trabecula" is a kind of...):
fibrous tissue (tissue consisting of or containing fibers in both animals and plants)
Derivation:
trabecular (of or relating to trabeculae)
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