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Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar..

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..

Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..

Stopping :: Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

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

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

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

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.

Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs..

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

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Compartition :: Compartition (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment..

Cloisonne :: Cloisonne (a.) Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel..

Pocket :: Pocket (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Sclerotome :: Sclerotome (n.) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes..

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..

Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..

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

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