fibre bundle
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～ a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
fibre
— Noun
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～ any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
fibre
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～ a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
fibre
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～ a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
fibreboard
— Noun
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～ wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets
fibreglass
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～ a covering material made of glass fibers in resins
fibreoptics
— Noun
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～ the transmission of light signals via glass fibers
fibril
— Noun
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～ a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
fibrillation
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～ act or process of forming fibrils
fibrillation
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～ muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
fibrin
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～ a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets
fibrinase
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～ in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot
fibrinogen
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～ a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots
fibrinolysin
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～ an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots
fibrinolysis
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～ a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots; "drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically"
fibrinopeptide
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～ peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood
fibroadenoma
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～ benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen
fibroblast
— Noun
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～ a cell from which connective tissue develops
fibrocartilage
— Noun
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～ cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue