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FIMBRIA (fimbriae)

Dictionary entry overview: What does fimbria mean?

• FIMBRIA (noun)
The noun FIMBRIA has 1 sense:

1. thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)

Familiarity information: FIMBRIA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIMBRIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fimbria" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

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