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trabecular

trabecular adjective: of or pertaining to a trabecula.

Adjective

trabecular (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a trabecula.
    • Macroscopic study of post-depositional breaks showed fiber bone deposition in some trabecular bone elements and in the medullary cavities of some long-bones.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27

Origin of trabecular

From trabecula + -ar.

Words formed from trabecular

Questions about trabecular

What does trabecular mean?
Trabecular means of or pertaining to a trabecula.
What part of speech is trabecular?
Trabecular is an adjective.

Words near trabecular in the dictionary

  1. trabectedin
  2. trabectome
  3. trabectomes
  4. trabecula
  5. trabeculae
  6. trabecular
  7. trabecularisation
  8. trabecularisations
  9. trabecularised
  10. trabecularity
  11. trabecularization

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