Etymology

Underwood's septa

Today it means: fin-shaped projections of bone sometimes found in the maxillary sinus Full definition →

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First described in 1910 by Arthur S. Underwood, an anatomist at King's College in London.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.