🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

미세섬유

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mise-seom-yu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fibril/ˈfaɪ.brɪl/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"근육 세포는 수많은 미세섬유로 이루어져 있습니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A fine fiber or thread-like structure, such as those found within muscle cells or connective tissue.

    "Under the electron microscope, each muscle fiber was seen to consist of hundreds of smaller myofibrils."
  2. 2

    A minute filament forming part of a larger natural fiber, such as cellulose in plants.

    "The mechanical strength of the plant cell wall depends largely on the arrangement of cellulose fibrils."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Modern Latin 'fibrilla', which is a diminutive of the Latin 'fibra' meaning fiber or filament. It entered English in the early 19th century through scientific nomenclature to describe minute, thread-like structural components in biological tissues.

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