fimbria (English, noun)
expansion: fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: plural-normally
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: fimbriae
tags: plural
form: fimbriæ
tags: plural