hemispondylium

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hemispondylium (noun; plural hemispondylia; Greek hemisys, half; spondylos, back): (Brachiopoda) In Thecideidae, one of two small plates attached to a medium septum and not to the valve floor or side walls, bearing the median adductor muscles.