Filament

(fil'a-ment.) [From L. filum, a thread.] (Bot.) The stalk of the anther; any kind of thread shaped body.-(Physiol.) The primitive form of all animal ti ue - a thread, a fine muscular hair-an indefinite number of which bound together constitute a fibre; a congeries of fibres similarly bound together forming a fasciculus; and a series of fasciculi composing. a MUSCLE, q. v. [s. 364]