meaning of septum
1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
2. A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
3. One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
4. One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
5. One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
6. anatomy a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities
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