FIBRIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fibril mean? 

• FIBRIL (noun)
  The noun FIBRIL has 1 sense:

1. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

  Familiarity information: FIBRIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIBRIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very slender natural or synthetic fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

fibril; filament; strand

Hypernyms ("fibril" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibril"):

barb (one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather)

cobweb; gossamer (filaments from a web that was spun by a spider)

chromatid (one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis)

myofibril; myofibrilla; sarcostyle (one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber)

rhizoid (any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc)

hypha (any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus)

paraphysis (a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed)

 Context examples 

In vitro studies indicate that Bgn may function in connective tissue metabolism by binding to collagen fibrils and TGF-beta, and may promote neuronal survival.

(Function of SLRP in Bone Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This protein plays a role in the modulation of actin fibril formation.

(Neural Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in both the metabolism of proteoglycans and collagen fibril formation.

(Decorin, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes decorin protein, is involved in extracellular matrix collagen fibril formation.

(DCN wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous administration, anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody NEOD001 specifically binds to amyloid fibrils.

(Anti-amyloid Monoclonal Antibody NEOD001, NCI Thesaurus)

In these disease states, normally soluble proteins aggregate as amyloidogenic insoluble fibrils that accumulate in affected tissues or organs.

(Amyloidogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.

(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Nodular localized form of amyloidosis with predominantly thoracic localization (pulmonary amyloidosis), considered as secondary protein structure disease in which insoluble protein fibrils accumulate extracellularly.

(Amyloidoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, eprodisate competitively binds to the glycosaminoglycan binding sites on serum amyloid A (SAA), which inhibits the formation of the glycosaminoglycan-amyloid fibril aggregate.

(Eprodisate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

The more readily stainable portion of the cell nucleus, forming a network of nuclear fibrils within the achromatin of a cell.

(Chromatin Structure, NCI Thesaurus)