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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)
Familiarity information: FIMBRIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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