fibril

(French fibrille; Low Lat. fibrilla, dim in. of Lat. fibra a fiber.] 1. Anat .: A little fiber. [FIBRILLA.] "Fine lam inæ formed of a close interlacement of the finest fibrils ." -Quain: Anatomy , ii. 136. 2. Bot .: One of the minute subdivisions in which a branching root terminates. Its tip is called the spongiole or spongiolet. 1817 occurring (a) as discs, (b) as lamine or menisce, and (c) of a circumferential type; (2) the Non articular, deposited on the surface of the grooves in bones which lodge tendons. (Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat . , vol. i., ch. iv.) fi-brō-car-ti-lag-In-ous, a . [Pref. fibro- , and Eng., ., cartilaginous .] Pertaining to, or composed of fibrocartilage.