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noun

Septum n. (pl. septa)

A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.

(Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

(Zool.)

(a)

One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

(b)

One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.

(c)

One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

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Etymology of 'Septum'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... It could not be ascertained, however, whether such is the case. The lines drawn on the chin were exactly like the ones I have seen on Moorish women in Morocco. Another outlandish attempt at adornment was witnessed at Cape Blossom in a woman who wore a bunch of colored beads suspended from the septum of her nose. These habits, however, hardly seem so revolting as the use of the labret by the "Mazinka" men on the American coast, of whom it is related that a sailor seeing one of them for the first time, and observing the slit in the lower lip through ...

— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse

Words linked to "Septum" : septal, partition, nasal septum, deviated nasal septum, general anatomy, anatomy