This is one of the oldest houses in the country and it has a rich history. In fact, the author of The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) lived in the house with his cousin for a short time, but never when the house actually had 7 gables. We climbed the...
Septate is a morphological term defined in biology in two different instances: 1  In human biology, it is used to describe a divide. For example, a septate uterus would be a divided uterus. 2  In mycology, it is used to describe the condition of spores or hyphae that possess or lack a septa to divide cells.  septate.
Ventricular septal defect (VSD): A hole in the septum (the wall) between the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles). V entricular S eptal D efect is the most common type of heart malformation (congenital heart disease). At least 1 baby in every 500 is born with a VSD. A VSD lets blood from the left ventricle (where it is under relatively high pressure) shunt into the right ventricle which has to do extra work to handle the additional blood, may have trouble keeping up with the load, enlarge, and fail.