FIMBRIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: fimbriae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fimbria" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

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