Trabecula Definition

trə-bĕkyə-lə

trabeculae, trabeculas

noun

A small rod, bar, or bundle of fibers.

Webster's New World

A small septum of fibers forming, with others of its kind, an essential part of the framework of an organ or part.

Webster's New World

A rodlike structure, plate, or bar of tissue, as any of the crossbars in the peristome teeth of mosses.

Webster's New World

Any of the fine spicules forming a network in cancellous bone.

American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Trabecula

Singular:

trabecula

Plural:

trabeculae, trabeculas

Latin trabēcula diminutive of trabs, trab- beam treb- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin trabÄ“cula (“small beam"), diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber").

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