trabecula

1. 1.

   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)

   Broaderfibrous tissue

Other forms of trabecula

plural

trabeculae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trabecula

What does trabecula mean?

trabecula means "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)".

How many syllables are in trabecula?

trabecula has 4 syllables: tra-be-cu-la. The stress falls on "be".

Is trabecula a common word?

trabecula is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.