Meaning of fimbria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
   plural-normally
2. An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
   plural-normally
3. 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.

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“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.”

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