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FIBRIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fibril" is a kind of...):
fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibril"):
barb (one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather)
cobweb; gossamer (filaments from a web that was spun by a spider)
chromatid (one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis)
myofibril; myofibrilla; sarcostyle (one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber)
rhizoid (any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc)
hypha (any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus)
paraphysis (a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed)
Context examples:
Parkinson's disease is one of a number of neurodegenerative diseases caused when naturally occurring proteins fold into the wrong shape and stick together with other proteins, eventually forming thin filament-like structures called amyloid fibrils.
(Calcium May Play A Role in Development of Parkinson's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
One of numerous oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin, especially those of the fingers and toes; they consist of a connective tissue capsule in which the axon fibrils terminate around and between a pile of wedge-shaped epithelioid cells.
(Meissner Corpuscle, NCI Thesaurus)
