trabecula

From Latin trabēcula (“small beam”), diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber”).

trabecula (plural trabeculae or trabeculas)

1. A small supporting beam.
2. (anatomy) A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
3. (anatomy) A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
4. (entomology) Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
5. (anatomy) One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
6. (botany) A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.

• trabecular
• trabeculation
• trabeculitis

• stroma

• curatable

• trabicula

Diminutive of trabs (“beam, timber”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /traˈbeː.ku.la/

trabēcula f (genitive trabēculae); first declension

1. A small beam.

First declension.

• trabecula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• trabecula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette