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Interauricular :: Interauricular (a.) Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart..

Mesentery :: Mesentery (n.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

Apartment :: Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions..

Valve :: Valve (n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.

Biseptate :: Biseptate (a.) With two partitions or septa.

Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Severance :: Severance (n.) The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation..

Tripartition :: Tripartition (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity..

Impartible :: Impartible (a.) Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate..

Syncytium :: Syncytium (n.) Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle..

Division :: Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Elocular :: Elocular (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition..

Perimysium :: Perimysium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers..

Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front..

Septum :: Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.

Honesty :: Honesty (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty..

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

Thurl :: Thurl (v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another..

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