fibril

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Some of these states have residual amounts of fibril interactions, whereas others lack fibril-like content.

View all »
Definitions (14)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun A small slender fiber or filament.
  2. noun Anatomy Any threadlike fiber or filament, such as a myofibril or neurofibril, that is a constituent of a cell or larger structure.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (10)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (33)

  • We attribute this extensive, strong protection to H-bonding by residues in core regions of β-sheet structure within the fibril. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The backbone amide hydrogens exchange at variable rates, suggesting different degrees of protection within the fibril. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • These data suggest that it is unlikely that the entire Aβ sequence is involved in H-bonded secondary structure within the amyloid fibril. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Future studies using the methods described here should reveal further details of Aβ fibril structure and assembly. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This approach has been used to define the precise location of fibril-forming core regions and identify local secondary structures within such core regions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
More examples »
 

Tags

fibril hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 52 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra, fiber.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French fibrille = Portuguese fibrilha = Italian fibrilla, from New Latin fibrilla, q. v.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈfaɪbrɪl/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a year.

Recently looked up

harmonized · bewbs · horticulture · soe · omnipresent

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

procrastinate · its not like im ugly people tell me im pretty · be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread