Found 2 items, similar to Septum.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: septum
septum
n 1: (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or
cavities
2: a partition or wall especially in an ovary
[also:
septa (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Septum
Septum
\Sep"tum\, n.; pl.
Septa. [L. septum, saeptum, an
inclosure, hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in,
inclose.]
1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal
septum.
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2. (Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
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3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
(b) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of
a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
See Illust. under
Nautilus.
(c) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body
cavity of an annelid.
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