fimbria
noun/ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
› A series of threads or other projections…
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Anatomy, Biology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Plural normally An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
- When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
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Bacteriology, Biology, Microbiology, Natural sciences A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.
- Derived terms
- fimbrial