trabecula

/trəˈbɛkjʊlə/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

A small supporting beam.

2

A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.

3

A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.

4

Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.

5

One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.

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