Septum

['septəm] or ['sɛptəm]

Definition

(noun.) (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities.

(noun.) a partition or wall especially in an ovary.

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Definition

(n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

(n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

(n.) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.

(n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

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Definition

n. (bot. anat.) a partition separating two cavities: one of the radial plates of a coral:—pl. Sep′ta.—adj. Sep′tulate having imperfect or spurious septa.—n. Sep′tulum a little septum or small partition.

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