Noun: septum
| Singular | septum |
| Plural | septa; septums |
Sample Sentences
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Deviated septum, a shift from the midline that commonly occurs in normal growth, is present in most adults. [2002, Springhouse, Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 1158:]
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Sally got a dagger hung from her septum
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O'Malley cut his ears off, but wishes that he kept 'em [2008, Neil Cicierega, “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:]
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Look, I got a new septum!
Nouns inflected like septum
septum,
sacrum,
scutum,
signum,
philtrum,
effluvium,
preferendum,
tricennium,
fenestrum,
prooemium,
pseudoperidium,
vomitorium,
gubernium,
protocerebrum,
addendum,
pallium,
pabulum,
refugium,
decorum,
fumigatorium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sēptum (“enclosure, wall, fence”). See: Latin Nouns '
sēptum'.