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  • English Word Fibre Definition A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
  • English Word fibre Definition A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
  • English Word Fibre-faced Definition Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
  • English Word Fibred Definition Having fibers; made up of fibers.
  • English Word Fibreless Definition Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
  • English Word Fibriform Definition Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
  • English Word Fibril Definition A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
  • English Word Fibrilla Definition A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
  • English Word FibrillAe Definition of Fibrilla
  • English Word Fibrillar Definition Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
  • English Word Fibrillary Definition Of of pertaining to fibrils.
  • English Word Fibrillated Definition Furnished with fibrils; fringed.
  • English Word Fibrillation Definition The state of being reduced to fibers.
  • English Word Fibrillose Definition Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.
  • English Word Fibrillous Definition Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.
  • English Word Fibrin Definition A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
  • English Word Fibrin Definition The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
  • English Word Fibrin Definition An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
  • English Word Fibrination Definition The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
  • English Word Fibrine Definition Belonging to the fibers of plants.
  • English Word Fibrinogen Definition An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.
  • English Word Fibrinogenous Definition Possessed of properties similar to fibrinogen; capable of forming fibrin.
  • English Word Fibrinoplastic Definition Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
  • English Word Fibrinoplastin Definition An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
  • English Word Fibrinous Definition Having, or partaking of the properties of, fibrin; as, fibrious exudation.
  • English Word Fibrocartilage Definition A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
  • English Word Fibrochondrosteal Definition Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous.
  • English Word Fibroid Definition Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
  • English Word Fibroid Definition A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
  • English Word Fibroin Definition A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.