Look up: septum

1. septum
   Partition which divides up a larger region into smaller ones, such as in the central body cavity of some anthozoa.
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2. septum
   A cross wall in a hypha or spore. (Pl. septa.)
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3. Septum
   A partition or cross-wall, as of a hypha or a spore. Hyphal septa are discoid with a central pore.
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4. septum
   [n] - a partition or wall especially in an ovary 2. [n] - (anatomy) dividing partition between two tissues or cavities
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5. Septum
   A dividing wall within a body part, e.g., the space inside the nose is divided into two channels by a dividing wall (septum).
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6. Septum
   Anatomical term meaning a division or fence. Often applied to the `wall` between paired structures e.g. the heart chambers and the nostrils
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7. Septum
   A thin partition or membrane that divides two cavities or soft masses of tissue in an organism e.g. the nasal septum or the atrial septum of the heart
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8. Septum
   A membrane wall separating two or more cavities, such as the one between the nasal fossae and those separating the air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs.
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9. septum
   A bony structure separating the nasal cavities
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10. Septum
    a thin wall dividing two cavities, such as between the nose
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11. Septum
    A dividing partition between two tissues or cavities.
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12. Septum
    Septum: A word borrowed from the Latin 'saeptum' meaning a 'dividing wall or enclosure.' Common Misspellings: septem
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13. septum
    a thin partition within or between anatomical structures or organs Category: Medicine • dividing wall of membrane between bodily spaces Category: Transport
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14. septum
    Literally a separating wall. Mainly applied to the structure composed of plasmalemmae and cell wall material formed in cell division in prokaryotes and fungi. Also applied to the sealing layers in various packages of sterile fluids, or barriers through which injections, needles etc. may be passed.
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15. Septum
    Sep'tum noun ; plural Septa . [ Latin septum , saeptum , an inclosure, hedge, fence, from sepire , saepire , to hedge in, inclose.] 1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal ...
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16. septum
    A dividing wall or partition, a general term for such a structure. The term is often used alone to refer to the septal area or to the septum pellucidum. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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17. septum
    noun (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities
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18. septum
    noun a partition or wall especially in an ovary
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19. septum
    (sep´tәm) pl. sep´ta Latin word meaning a partition. In anatomy, it is used for a wall or partition dividing a body space or cavity. Some are membranous, some are osseous, and some are cartilaginous; each is named according to its location. adj., sep´tal., adj. nasal septum.
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20. Septum
    • (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum. • (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid. • (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under...
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21. septum
    (from the article `aggressive behaviour`) ...aggressive behaviours that are, in turn, produced in lower brain regions. The activity of this system is modulated by higher centres, including ... ...A cylindrical extension grows from the proancestrula, and the matrix of the colony then is built up by repeated divisions of the zooidal walls...
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22. septum
    a dividing wall or partition; (NA) a general term for such a structure. The term is often used alone to refer to the septal area or to the septum pellucidum.
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23. Septum
    A device for deflecting beam from its normal path. Some septa (plural of septum) use a magnetic field and have a thick, curved copper plate for a current carrier; others are electrostatic and use a thin plane of wires to set up the electric field.
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24. Septum
    A magnetic or electrostatic device used to deflect charged particles along one of two paths. Typically, a solid metal sheet or plane of wires separates a region with and electric or magnetic field from a region of no field. Beam entering the first region is deflected while beam entering the second region is not.
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25. Septum
    A partition separating two cavities or parts.
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