fimbria

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. plural-normally
    — 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.
  2. 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.

词形变化

fimbriae plural fimbriæ plural

词汇关系

衍生词
fimbrial

词源

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
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