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What is a fimbria?

What is a fimbria? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
  2. (bacteriology) hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.
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When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
It was fear of fimbria that made Mithridates more inclined to make a friend of Sulla.
Then by pushing gently the telescope in the fimbria it was possible to enter in the ampulla and to reach the isthmo-ampullary junction.
The accompanying fallopian tube with identified fimbria was free of tumor.
He was put to death by fimbria, who was in command of some of the troops of Marius.
More often a procedure to maintain eversion of these pseudo fimbria has to be carried out.

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