A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.
an irregular latticework of thin plate of spongy bone; fibrous cord of connective tissue serving as supporting fiber by forming a septum that extends into an organ from its wall or capsule; plural, trabeculae
a little beam or spicule, e.g. of bone, of connective tissue.
(-ae) L. = a little beam, dim. L. trabs, from G. trapes = beam, rib of a ship; 1. bundles or sheets of fibres giving internal support to an organ, 2. bony lamellae in cancellous bone.
In general anatomical usage, a septum extending from an envelope through enclosed substance, which, together with other trabeculae, forms part of the framework of various organs; also called intermuncial process.
rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen)
diminutive of Latin trabs = a beam; hence the supporting fibres of a structure.
A trabecula (plural trabeculae) is a small, often microscopic, tissue element in the form of a small beam, strut or rod, generally having a mechanical function, and usually but not necessarily composed of dense collagenous tissue.