trabecula

noun

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)

Roots

trabstrab- · Latin · beam, timber cula-ecula · Latin · little (diminutive)

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