fibril
pronunciation
How to pronounce fibril in British English:
UK ['faɪbrɪl]
How to pronounce fibril in American English:
US ['faɪbrɪl]
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- Noun:
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Word Origin
- fibril (n.)
- 1680s, Anglicization of Modern Latin fibrilla "a little fiber, a filament," especially in botany, diminutive of Latin fibra "a fiber, filament" (see fiber). Latin fibra and fibrilla were used in 17c. physiology in English alongside nativized fibre and fibril. From 1931 as "thread-like molecular formation."
Example
- 1. Studies of the amyloid fibril formation of the prion peptides .
- 2. Effect of amino acids on formation and cytotoxicity of bovine insulin fibril .
- 3. Effects of heat - and high pressure-treatment on fibril structure and gelation properties of sea cucumber collagen .
- 4. All endomyocardial biopsy specimens that were analysed had sufficient amyloid fibril subunit protein to allow characterisation by amino acid sequence analysis .
- 5. The result would be the observed gradual change in fibril orientation .