The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fibrillar
Fibrillar \Fi"bril*lar\, a. Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fibrillar
"pertaining to or of the nature of fibrillae," 1847, from fibrilla (see fibril) + -ar.
Wiktionary
fibrillar
a. 1 (context not comparable English) of or pertaining to fibrils 2 having the characteristics of fibrils
Usage examples of "fibrillar".
Quite similar fibrillar movements seem to be made by the tongue in bulbar paralysis, and in the case of dogs and guinea-pigs whose hypoglossus has been severed.
I often saw his tongue affected with fibrillar contractions as if the mastery of the hypoglossus were not as yet complete.