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A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: bacteriology, biology, microbiology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pilus
Antonyms: none provided
thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, outgrowth, appendage
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
фимбрия
(fimbrija)
— anatomy
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Catalan:
fímbria
— anatomy
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Portuguese:
fímbria
— anatomy
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Spanish:
fimbria
— anatomy
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Catalan:
fímbria
— bacteriology
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Finnish:
värekarva
— bacteriology
