Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A network or felting as of fibers.

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  • noun medicine A fibrous network
  • noun medicine A tight plexus of nerve fibrils

Etymologies

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felt +‎ work

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Examples

  • Throughout this feltwork structure which gradually passes into areolar tissue are numerous muscular fibers, as about the hair-follicles and the oil glands.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

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