septum
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A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral.
One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus.
One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
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Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
Chronic intranasal usage can degrade the cartilage separating the nostrils (the septum nasi ), leading eventually to its complete disappearance.
Assuming you have no issues with your septum or other points of sinus breathing pathways, this is actually the ideal form for breathing while engaging in strenuous physical activity.
In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false.
Galen believed that the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right by passing through 'pores' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart.
If the spore is divided into two by a cross-wall ( septum ), it is called a didymospore.