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Definition of: septum
(sep′təm) noun plural ·ta (-tə) Biol.
1. A dividing wall between two cavities: the nasal septum.
2. A partition, as in coral or in a spore. [<L <sepere enclose <sepes a hedge]
—sep′tal adjective
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