单词 | septum transversum |
释义 | > as lemmasseptum transversum a. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally (more fully septum transversum): the diaphragm, which separates the thorax and abdomen (obsolete). In later use: any of various structures that form a dividing wall or partition between two cavities or areas of tissue in the body of a human or other animal. Frequently with distinguishing Latin or English word. [Compare classical Latin transversum septum transverse septum (Celsus).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > separation or partition mediastinum?a1425 mediastine?c1425 septum1543 paries1694 interseptum1753 cameration1863 abstriction1877 abjunction1887 macroseptum1904 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. ζζvi.v/1 And the nether part of thorax is called septum transuersum. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 54 Where the fleshy part of Septum doth degenerate into a Tendon. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 147 (caption) The second exhibiteth the Kidney where all the substance or partition which is called Septum renis is sliced away in a compasse, that the second cauity may better appeare. 1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 86 In some Sculls, besides the large osseus Septum, there are found in each Sinus several bony Pillars. 1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 442 If they be viewed with a deep magnifier, every cone appears divided transversely by two or three internal septa or partitions. 1803 C. Bell Anat. Human Body III. i. i. 15 Those septa, or, as they are called, processes of the dura mater, being extended across from the internal surface of the cranium, support the brain in the sudden motions of the body. 1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 145 In miliary tuberculosis of man..we see that the first changes take place in the alveoli and interalveolar septa. 1951 G. R. de Beer Vertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) iv. 43 They extend in the septum that divides the myotomes horizontally, and are called ‘dorsal’ ribs. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 276/1 The grooves between segments [of annelid worms] coincide with internal compartments, often separated by transverse sheets of tissue (septa), containing serially repeated nervous, muscle, and excretory systems. 2014 A. Roberts Incredible Unlikeliness of Being 231 As the cloaca on the inside becomes divided by the urorectal septum, the cloacal membrane on the outside also becomes divided in two. < as lemmas |
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