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(anatomy) dividing partition between two tissues or cavities

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

A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

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

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

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

A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.

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

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

A dividing wall or partition in a coral, seashell, or other organism.

A thin wall dividing two cavities or masses of softer tissue.

A membranous partition.

A partition separating into two cavities, as in fruits, chambered shells, corals.

A part destined to separate two cavities from each other, or to divide a principal cavity into several secondary cavities. These septa are numerous in the human body. The chief are the following.

A dividing wall or partition.

A thin partition, alveolar septa. The walls of the pulmonary alveoli which project into the infundibula.

n. [Latin] A partition; — in botany, a partition that separates the cells of the fruit; —in anatomy, a partition which separates two cavities, as of the nostrils.