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TRABECULA [6 records]

Record 1 2013-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

A simple type of trabecula in a rugose coral.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Type simple de trabécule de tétracoralliaires.

OBS

[Le monocanthe] est constitué de fibres courbées qui s'irradient de l'axe vers le haut et vers les bords où elles se rabattent à 90° et parfois même [à] 120°.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

A type of corallite trabecula composed of complex fibrous elements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Type de trabécule d'un polypier formé d'éléments fibreux complexes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
DEF

... a strout bundle of muscle in the central or apical part of the right ventricle. It crosses the lumen from the base of the anterior papillary muscle to the septum opposite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
DEF

Colonne charnue, qui, de la racine du pilier antérieur de la tricuspide, remonte en partie sur la paroi antérieure du ventricule droit, et vient s'achever sur le septum antérieur haut du muscle papillaire de conus.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
DEF

A rod-like or spool-shaped part of a cell wall, which projects radially across the lumen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Portion de paroi cellulaire en forme de poutre ou de bobine qui s'étend radialement à travers la lumière d'une trachéide, d'une paroi tangentielle vers l'autre paroi tangentielle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
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Record 5 1993-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
DEF

In scales of Lepidoptera, internal struts between superior and inferior lamellae.

OBS

The term "trabeculae", in entomology, can also refer to either the cuticular columns separating blood spaces between dorsal and ventral surfaces of elytron (outer wing), or the cross struts or serrations strengthening rima on each side of the spiracular opening in Diptera (fly) larvae.

OBS

The singular of trabeculae is trabecula.

Key term(s)
  • trabecula

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Très petits piliers réunissant la lamelle supérieure à la lamelle inférieure dans les écailles de papillons.

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] pillar [is] tiny rod-like structure, larger and straighter than a "trabecula" connecting discrete layers of sclerite in holothurians.

OBS

[A pillar is] a vertical or radial element [in a Hydrozoan skeleton.]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Un] pilier radial [est] un élément vertical [dans un squelette de coelentéré.]

Spanish

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