Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Endotheca

Endotheca , noun

[New Latin, from Greek 'e`ndon within + qh`kh a case, box, from {not transcribed} to place.]

(Zoology) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique transverse septa, one above another.