fibril

  • 11Fibril — The diminutive of fiber. A small fiber, a fine thread. * * * A minute fiber or component of a fiber. SYN: fibrilla. [Mod. L. fibrilla] anchoring fibrils collagen fibrils that insert in to the basal lamina of the epidermis and bind it down to the… …

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  • 12fibril·la — fi|bril|·la Mot Pla Nom femení …

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  • 13fibril — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A very fine continuous strand: fiber, filament, thread. See THING …

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  • 14fibril — fi·bril || faɪbrɪl / fɪ n. tiny fiber, small hairlike structure; tiny fiber on a root (Botany); small hairlike structure outside of a cell wall (Anatomy) …

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  • 15fibril — [ fʌɪbrɪl] noun technical a small or slender fibre. Derivatives fibrillar adjective fibrillary adjective Origin C17: from mod. L. fibrilla, dimin. of L. fibra (see fibre) …

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  • 16fibril — n. Small fibre, slender thread …

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  • 17fibril — fi·bril …

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  • 18fibril — n. a very small fibre or a constituent thread of a fibre (for example, a myofibril of a muscle fibre). Derivatives: fibrillary adj. Derivatives: fibrillar …

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  • 19fibril — fi•bril [[t]ˈfaɪ brəl, ˈfɪb rəl[/t]] n. 1) a small or fine fiber or threadlike structure 2) bot root hair • Etymology: 1655–65; < NL < fibrilla < L fibra fiber fi′bril•lar, adj. fi′bril•lose , adj …

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  • 20fibril — /ˈfaɪbrəl/ (say fuybruhl), /ˈfɪb / (say fib ) noun a small or fine fibre. {New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra fibre} …