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noun
Septum  n.  (pl. septa)  
1.
A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
2.
(Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
3.
(Zool.)
(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.
(c)
One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.






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... from the mouth by a bony floor, the palate, and which opens into the pharynx behind at the posterior nares (P.N.) and to the exterior by the anterior or external nares (E.N.). It is divided into right and left passages by a middle partition, the nasal septum. Outside the skull, on its wings, is a flask-like bone, the bulla tympani (b. in Figures 2 and 3), protecting the middle ear, and from above this there passes an arch, the cheek bone (ju. in Figures 1, 2, and 3), to the upper jaw, forming in front the bony lower ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Septum" :   partition, deviated nasal septum, deviated septum, general anatomy, anatomy, septal



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