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Fibrillary

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fi·bril  (fbrl, fbrl)
n.
1. A small slender fiber or filament.
2. Anatomy Any threadlike fiber or filament, such as a myofibril or neurofibril, that is a constituent of a cell or larger structure.
[New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra, fiber.]
fibril·lar (-lr), fibril·lary (-lr) adj.
fibril·lose (-ls) adj.


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The cells are fusiform with elongated fibrillary cytoplasm, and their buckled to spindled nuclei exhibit little atypia.
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