fimbria
A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringeA 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.
Meaning
2 sensesA series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
(usually plural)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.
thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
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.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibeLearned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
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