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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fibril
1655–65; < New Latin fibrilla, equivalent to Latin fibr ( a ) fiber + -illa diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
These cross-β fibril assemblies are also useful building blocks within designer biomaterials for medical applications, but their resemblance to their amyloid beta cousins, whose tangles are a symptom of neurodegenerative disease, is concerning.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 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
These weak, local interactions gain avidity by their summation over thousands of identical copies along the axis of the fibril.
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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