Septum Definition

sĕptəm
septa, septums
noun
A thin wall, membrane, etc. that separates two cavities or two masses of tissue, as in the nose or in a fruit.
Webster's New World

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

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Other Word Forms of Septum

Noun

Singular:
septum
Plural:
septa, septums

Origin of Septum

  • From Latin sÄ“ptum, alternative form of saeptum (“enclosure, hedge, fence"), from saeptus, perfect passive participle of saepiō (“hedge in, enclose").

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin sēptum from Latin saeptum partition from neuter past participle of saepīre to enclose from saepēs fence

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Septum Sentence Examples

  • To the left of the ctenidium a pulmonary sac, separated from it by an incomplete septum, am phibious.

  • The liver cells, therefore, are entodermal, but the supporting connective tissue mesodermal from the septum transversum.

  • The spores themselves may be unicellular without a septum or multicellular with one or more septa.

  • A simple sporophore may be merely a single short hypha, the end of which stops growing and becomes cut off as a conidium by the formation of a septum, which then splits and allows the conidium to fall.

  • At the age of puberty the lad was tattooed or scarred with gashes cut in back, shoulders, arms and chest, and the septum of the nose was pierced.

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Words Starting With

SSESEP

Words Ending With

MUMTUM

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Words Starting With S and Ending With M

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With M