Definition of "trabecula" []

• A small supporting beam or bar. (noun)
• Anatomy Any of the supporting strands of connective tissue projecting into an organ and constituting part of the framework of that organ. (noun)
• Any of the fine spicules forming a network in cancellous bone. (noun)

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• "The medial liver trabecula into which the enteron was seen to open, in the preceding figure, now opens ventrally to the yolk-sac as the anterior intestinal portal."
• "Osteoblasts and osteoclasts on trabecula of lower jaw of calf embryo."
• "Its spongy, interconnected cells match the natural bone trabecula structure, thereby allow integration into the surrounding viable bone."