Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
septum .
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- noun Plural form of
septum .
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Examples
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The columns, separated by vertical connective bands called septa, act like stitches in a quilt: they pull down on the skin, causing it to pucker, even as the fat puffs out like stuffing.
The Tip Sheet 2007
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These columns are technically called septa; and La Cepede calculates that two hundred and forty transverse membranes are packed in each inch, thereby giving to an electric eel eight feet in length an organ cavity of two hundred and forty-six square feet -- an enormous extent, as may be supposed, of electricity producing surface.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Muscular walls, called septa or septum, divide the heart into two sides and keep the two kinds of blood from mixing.
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Her character of Septa Mordane is a septa priestess in the service of House Stark, responsible for the education and comportment of Lord Eddard's two daughters.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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Her character of Septa Mordane is a septa priestess in the service of House Stark, responsible for the education and comportment of Lord Eddard's two daughters.
A ton of supporting actors for THRONES. Adam Whitehead 2010
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Playn, unadorned Ingerlish iz purrfectlee ack septa bull.
Boss cat is giving you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael Natale 2008
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The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman.
George RR Martin Quote of the Day - 11/22/08 Michael Natale 2008
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Nowhere is this more true than China, where the country's most effective political activists are a generation of septa - and octogenarians.
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The septa is doing no more than is her duty, though gods know you have made it a struggle for the poor woman.
George RR Martin Quote of the Day - 11/22/08 Michael Natale 2008
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