trabecula

/trəˈbɛkjʊlə/

IPA: /T R AA0 B EH1 K Y AH0 L AH0/

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.
6
A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.

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