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2 unusual facts about septum


Anelsonia

The fruits are each 2 to 3 centimeters tall, elliptic, and papery to leathery across a span between stiff septa.

Septum

Septum (marine biology): walls between each chamber, or siphuncle, in shells of nautiloids, ammonites, and belemnites; i.e. cephalopods that retain an external shell.


Endospore

The DNA is replicated and a membrane wall known as a spore septum begins to form between it and the rest of the cell.

Nose piercing

Septum piercing was a popular trend among South Indian dancers (Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam) and among certain Native American peoples in history; the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, for example, had such piercings.

Realdo Colombo

The permeability of the septum was questioned by Michael Servetus in Christianismi Restitutio in 1553 and by Ibn al-Nafis in the 12th century and both proposed that the blood was pushed from the right ventricle to the left via the lungs, however, both of these accounts were largely forgotten.


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