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单词 fimbria
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Definition of fimbria in English:

fimbria

nounPlural fimbriae ˈfɪmbrɪəˈfimbrēə
Anatomy
  • 1A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.

    〔主剖〕伞;纤毛

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The researchers will collaborate with scientists at the University of Navarra, in Spain, to determine how Salmonella develop fimbriae as they grow and how they use them to cling to surfaces.
    • Shorter pili, usually referred to as fimbriae, are a structurally distinct group of extrusions which operate mostly in bacterial attachment to substrate or to other cells.
    • Bacterial colonization involves multiple factors, including fimbriae or pili, flagella, and surface polysaccharides.
    1. 1.1usually fimbriae An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection at the end of the fallopian tube near the ovary.
      (尤指卵巢附近输卵管末端状似手指的)伞毛
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The accompanying fallopian tube with identified fimbria was free of tumor.
      • 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.
      • Each fimbria bears a protein tip that can bind to sugar (or to sugar-coated or sugar-containing) molecules on the surfaces of cells.
      • Salmonella cells produce fimbriae (hairlike structures) and cellulose that help them attach, colonize, and survive on the melon's surface.
      • And until recently investigators could not analyze how such an effect might be operating at the scale of individual fimbriae.

Derivatives

  • fimbrial

  • adjective
    Anatomy
    • The fimbrial changes are apparently controlled by the ovulatory ovary.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A new treatment that requires more testing is fimbrial expression, when the fertilised egg is ‘milked’ out of the end of the fallopian tube.
      • The function of this gene is yet unknown, but it is described as a part of a fimbrial synthesis and iron transport genes cluster 104.
      • Laparoscopy showing a normal pelvis with passage of blue dye through the fimbrial end of the left tube
      • Tubal distortion and limitation of fimbrial mobility caused by the associated pelvic adhesions is more likely.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin, 'border, fringe'.

Definition of fimbria in US English:

fimbria

nounˈfimbrēə
Anatomy
  • 1A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.

    〔主剖〕伞;纤毛

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bacterial colonization involves multiple factors, including fimbriae or pili, flagella, and surface polysaccharides.
    • Shorter pili, usually referred to as fimbriae, are a structurally distinct group of extrusions which operate mostly in bacterial attachment to substrate or to other cells.
    • The researchers will collaborate with scientists at the University of Navarra, in Spain, to determine how Salmonella develop fimbriae as they grow and how they use them to cling to surfaces.
    1. 1.1usually fimbriae An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection at the end of the fallopian tube near the ovary.
      (尤指卵巢附近输卵管末端状似手指的)伞毛
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Each fimbria bears a protein tip that can bind to sugar (or to sugar-coated or sugar-containing) molecules on the surfaces of cells.
      • And until recently investigators could not analyze how such an effect might be operating at the scale of individual fimbriae.
      • 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.
      • The accompanying fallopian tube with identified fimbria was free of tumor.
      • Salmonella cells produce fimbriae (hairlike structures) and cellulose that help them attach, colonize, and survive on the melon's surface.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin, ‘border, fringe’.

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