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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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
In addition, the scientists plan to investigate whether they can manufacture the protein fibril sponges out of other protein-rich byproducts or waste products from the food industry.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
However, an important consideration is the extent to which the structures of amyloid fibrils generated from segments of amyloid-forming proteins represent the fibril structures that are formed by their full-length parent proteins31.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
As the second incision was made, I felt a strange flash of pain play through the limb, as if it were in every minutest fibril of nerve.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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