Fimbria

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  • noun. A fringelike part or structure, as at the opening of the fallopian tubes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In zoology and botany, one of the parts or processes which collectively make a fringe; a fringing filament, fibril, or filum.
  • noun. plural A set of fringing processes; a fringe.
  • noun. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of mollusks.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fringe, or fringed border.
  • noun. A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
    • Word Usage
    "In addition, if the scar tissue forms in and around the fingerlike ends of your tube called the fimbria, the tubes may actually seal shut, in which case all chances for natural conception are lost."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    appendage  outgrowth  process  
    variant
    fimbriae  
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