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fibril
1. A very slender natural or synthetic fiber.
2. A small fiber or a fine thread.
3. A very small filamentous structure, often the component of a cell or a fiber.
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fibril
A minute fiber or component of a fiber.
(Latin: small fiber or filament)
Word Entries containing the term: “fibril
nerve fibril, neurofibril
1. A delicate fibril found in the cell body and processes of a neuron.
2. One of the delicate threads running in every direction through the cytoplasm of a nerve cell, extending into the axon and dendrites (receptive surfaces of a neuron).