FILUM (fila)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: fila   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does filum mean? 

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

1. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

filament; filum

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

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

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

hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)

Derivation:

filar (related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope))

 Context examples 

It arises almost exclusively in the conus medullaris, cauda equina, and filum terminale of the spinal cord.

(Myxopapillary Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus)