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Meaning of trabecula | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/trəˈbɛkjʊlə/

Definitions

  1. A small supporting beam.
  2. A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
  3. A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
  4. Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
  5. One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
  6. A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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