fimbria

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See also: fímbria

English

Wikipedia Wikipedia
Illustration of fimbrial end of the fallopian tube.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)

  1. (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
    1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
      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. (bacteriology) 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.
      Synonym: pilus

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of fimbriae a fringe, border, edge

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fimbria fimbriae
Genitive fimbriae fimbriārum
Dative fimbriae fimbriīs
Accusative fimbriam fimbriās
Ablative fimbriā fimbriīs
Vocative fimbria fimbriae

Descendants

Descendants of fimbria in other languages

References

  • “fimbria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, see “fimbriae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fimbria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fimbria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin fimbria, from Latin fimbriae. Doublet of franja.

Pronunciation

Noun

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

  1. (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

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