fibrils's Usage Examples:

The lophophore is supplied by yet a third nerve, the under arm-nerve, which is less clearly defined than the others, and resembles a moderate aggregation of the nerve fibrils, which seem everywhere to underlie the ectoderm, and which in a few cases are gathered up into nerves.

definite fibrils which differentiate into fibrous laminae forming a zone which shuts off the abscess from the healthy tissue and so prevents the further invasion and injurious effects of the microorganism.

The change appears to begin in the fibrils which lie between the circular muscle fibres of the middle coat of the smaller arterioles and extends both backwards and forwards along the vessels.

Evidence is not wanting, however, that the cytoplasm must be regarded as, fundamentally, a semifluid, homogeneous substance in which by its own activity, granules, vacuoles, fibrils, 'c.

It is taken up from the interstices between the particles of soil exclusively by the finest subdivisions of the fibrils, and in many cases by the extremely delicate thread-like cells which project from them and which are known as root-hairs.

There is a special marginal nerve running round the edge of the mantle, but the connexion of this with the rest of the nervous system is not clear; probably it is merely another concentration of the diffused sub-ectodermal nervous fibrils.

It spreads forwards, affecting the supporting fibres outside the epithelium of the capillaries, and then passes to the connective-tissue fibrils of the veins.

It is from these cells that the fine fibrillar substance is formed, and from this stage onwards - eight to fifteen days - there is a steady increase in the new fibrils, giving more density to the new tissue.

As their fibrils become more developed they gradually form fibrous laminae which are laid down first in the deeper part of the wound.

It is a retrogressive process producing characteristic changes in the fine connectivetissue fibrils.

The fibrils of the outer coat also show the change to a less extent, while the degeneration very rarely spreads to the middle coat.

Synonyms:

hypha, sarcostyle, rhizoid, fiber, myofibrilla, gossamer, chromatid, filament, paraphysis, fibre, cobweb, strand, myofibril, barb,

Antonyms:

unthoughtfulness, irresponsibleness, irresponsibility, thick, rugged,