fimbria

American  

[fim-bree-uh] / ˈfɪm bri ə /

noun

PLURAL

fimbriae

1. Botany, Zoology.  Often fimbriae. a fringe or fringed border.

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fimbria British  

/ ˈfɪmbrɪə /

noun

1. anatomy a fringe or fringelike margin or border, esp at the opening of the Fallopian tubes

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Other Word Forms

• fimbrial adjective

Etymology

Origin of fimbria

1745–55; < New Latin; Latin fimbriae (plural) border, fringe

Example Sentences

Under a microscope, the researchers could also see tiny, hairlike appendages called fimbriae that anchor the bacteria to the nose’s inner surface.

From Science Magazine

Then, sometime between 12 and 50 years after the two of you left your grandmother, you burst forth and were sucked by her fimbriae into the fallopian tube.

From Forbes

This part is fimbriated, as has been said, and one of the fimbriae—the Fimbria Ovarica—which is longer than the others, forms a shallow gutter which extends to the ovary.

From Project Gutenberg

When the inflammation is adjacent to the ostium it leads to the matting together of the tubal fimbriae and glues them to an adjacent organ.

From Project Gutenberg

For instance, all three of the strains shut down genes that make fimbriae, hairlike structures on the surface of the cell that help the bacteria adhere to surfaces.

From US News