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FIMBRIA (fimbriae)

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 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)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FIMBRIA (noun)


Sense 1

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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