Crossword clues for fimbria
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fimbria \Fim"bri*a\, n.; pl. Fimbri[ae]. [L., fringe. See Fringle.] (Anat.)
pl. A fringe, or fringed border.
A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a fringing filament," from Late Latin fimbria (sing.), from Latin fimbriae (pl.), "fringe, border, threads." Related: Fimbriated (late 15c.); fimbrial.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
WordNet
n. thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
[also: fimbriae (pl)]
Wikipedia
A fimbria (plural fimbriae, adjective fimbriate) is a Latin word that literally means "fringe." It is commonly used in science and medicine, with its meaning depending on the field of study or the context.
Fimbria may refer to:
- Fimbria (bacteriology), a proteinaceous appendage in many gram-negative bacteria that is thinner and shorter than a flagellum
- Fimbria (female reproductive system), a fringe of tissue near the ovary leading to the fallopian tube
- Fimbria (genus), a genus of clams
- Fimbria (neuroanatomy), a prominent band of white matter along the medial edge of the hippocampus in the brain
- Fimbria (owl feathers), a comb-like leading edge of an owl's flight feather, allowing owls to fly silently
Fimbriate:
- Fimbriate, in botany, fringed e.g. petals
In bacteriology, a fimbria [(plural fimbriae); also referred to as "attachment pili" by some scientists] is an appendage composed of curlin proteins that can be found on many Gram-negative and some Gram-positive bacteria that is thinner and shorter than a flagellum. This appendage ranges from 3-10 nanometers in diameter and can be up to several micrometers long. Fimbriae are used by bacteria to adhere to one another and to adhere to animal cells and some inanimate objects. A bacterium can have as many as 1,000 fimbriae. Fimbriae are only visible with the use of an electron microscope. They may be straight or flexible.
Fimbriae carry adhesins which attach them to the substratum ( E. coli uses them to attach to mannose receptors) so that the bacteria can withstand shear forces and obtain nutrients.
Some aerobic bacteria form a thin layer at the surface of a broth culture. This layer, called a pellicle, consists of many aerobic bacteria that adhere to the surface by their fimbriae. Thus, fimbriae allow the aerobic bacteria to remain on the broth, from which they take nutrients, while they congregate near the air.
Usage examples of "fimbria".
Quite unable to control Fimbria, Flaccus found himself subordinate to his subordinate.
Then Fimbria trapped Mithridates in Pitane and sent to Lucullus to help him capture the King by blockading the harbor.
Carbo twice, Marcus Gratidianus twice the urban praetor, almost half the Senate outlawed, Appius Claudius banished with his imperium intact, Fimbria running round Asia Minor making deals with King Mithridates-the whole thing is a joke!
When he was murdered by Fimbria in the street outside his door, she was widowed again.
A few men looked serenely comfortable-Catulus, Hortensius, Lepidus-and some looked terrified-a Flaccus or two, a Fimbria, a minor Carbo-but most bore the look of sheep, vacuous yet skittish.
Romans was due, of course, to the occupation of the city by Fimbria and Flaccus four years earlier, when they-appointed by the government of Cinna-had decided to head for Asia and a war with Mithridates rather than for Greece and a war with Sulla.
I have been blamed by some for the fact that King Mithridates is at large to commence this third war against Rome because I refused to aid Fimbria in capturing Mithridates at Pitane, and-it is commonly said-thereby allowed Mithridates the room to escape.
Wool from Almark, amber from Forlassen, furs from Fimbria, iron from Astarac, timber from the tall woods of Gabrion, best in the world for the building of ships.
There are untold tens of thousands of them in Fimbria contributing nothing to the defence of the continent.
Narbukan Fimbria, it was true, had opened itself to the outside world after the schism with the rest of the electorates, but as a result it was no longer seen as truly Fimbrian.
We sit here as the de facto rulers of Fimbria, and are able to authorize any course of action we see fit.
Golophin must have suspected that there was something afoot in Fimbria, for it was he who advised me to sound out the electorates.
Only Fimbria, in her heyday, had ever governed a tract of land so large, and the men who had had this awesome responsibility thrust so precipitately upon their shoulders were clerics, priests with no experience in governance.
And in Fimbria there was some kind of mind-set which seemed to militate against our folk from the earliest times.
Only yesterday a delegation had arrived from Fimbria, of all places, with an escort of forty sable-clad pikemen.