Fibril

Fibril
The diminutive of fiber. A small fiber, a fine thread.
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A minute fiber or component of a fiber. SYN: fibrilla. [Mod. L. fibrilla]
- anchoring fibrils collagen fibrils that insert in to the basal lamina of the epidermis and bind it down to the underlying dermis.
- collagen fibrils SYN: unit fibrils.
- muscular f. SYN: myofibril.
- subpellicular f. SYN: subpellicular microtubule.
- unit fibrils the fibrils that comprise a collagen fiber, ranging from 20–200 nm and averaging about 100 nm in diameter (substantially larger in tendons), with cross-striations averaging 64 nm. SYN: collagen fibrils.

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fi·bril 'fīb-rəl, 'fib- n a small filament or fiber: as
a) one of the fine threads into which a striated muscle fiber can be longitudinally split
b) NEUROFIBRIL

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n.
a very small fibre or a constituent thread of a fibre (for example, a myofibril of a muscle fibre).
fibrillaribrillary adj.

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fi·bril (fiґbril) [L. fibrilla] a minute filament, such as a component of a fiber. fibrillar, fibrillary adj

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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