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• saeptum, sæptum (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈsɛp.təm/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsep.təm/
• 韻: -ɛptəm

名詞

septum (plural septa or septums)

1. (biology) A wall separating two cavities; a partition.

   Synonym: dissepiment

   1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal septum (“the cartilaginous center wall of the nose separating the two nostrils”).
      • 2002, Springhouse, Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 1158:

        Deviated septum, a shift from the midline that commonly occurs in normal growth, is present in most adults.

      • 2008, Neil Cicierega, “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:

        Sally got a dagger hung from her septum
        O'Malley cut his ears off, but wishes that he kept 'em

   2. (anatomy) Either of the two walls that separate the atria or ventricles of the heart into left and right chambers.
   3. (botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
   4. (mycology) A partition that separates the cells of a (septated) fungus.
   5. (zoology) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
   6. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers.
   7. (zoology) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
   8. (nuclear medicine) One of the walls dividing two holes in a parallel-hole collimator
2. (colloquial) Ellipsis of septum ring or septum piercing.

   Look, I got a new septum!

下位語

• nasal septum
• interventricular septum
• septum pellucidum

派生語

参照

• “septum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “septum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• spetum

名詞

sēptum n (genitive sēptī); second declension

1. alternative form of saeptum

派生した語

• → English: septum