fibril
Americannoun
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a small or fine fiber or filament.
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Botany. any of the delicate hairs on the young roots of some plants.
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Cell Biology. any threadlike structure or filament.
noun
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a small fibre or part of a fibre
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biology a threadlike structure, such as a root hair or a thread of muscle tissue
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Etymology
Origin of fibril
1655–65; < New Latin fibrilla, equivalent to Latin fibr ( a ) fiber + -illa diminutive suffix
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Each fibril had to be carefully designed -- larger fibrils had weaker adhesion, while the smaller fibrils were hard to fabricate and prone to collapse and degradation.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
In their experiments, the researchers found that one fibril with a 19.6 mm2 cross-section could support loads up to 1.56 kg.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
Their image of these fibril assemblies made the cover of the ACS Nano and was put together by first author Weiyan Zhou, who color-coded the image based on where the Nile reds were pointing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
Each protein molecule contributes two windings of a helix to the length of the fibril so that the β-strands alternate between intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding along the axis of the fibre.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
As the second incision was made, I felt a strange lightning of pain play through the limb, defining every minutest fibril of nerve.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
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