Fiber

(fi'-ber). A filamentary or threadlike structure. Applied to the thread-like filaments of muscular, cartilaginous, and tendinous ti ues. F., Axial, the central or axial band of a nerve-fiber; it is called also the band of Remak and the axis cylinder. F., Beale's, a spinal nerve-fiber seen in sympathetic ganglion-cells. It becomes a medullated nerve. F., Biihlmann's, peculiar lines formed in carious teeth due to the Bacterium lineola. F., Gottstein's, the external ciliated cells and nerve-fibers of the auditory nerve in the cochlea. F. of Corti. See. Corti. F. of Gerdy, a transverse band of fibers supporting the hand cro wise and forming the web of the fingers. F. of Miiller, a supporting connective ti ue that unites the various layers of the retina. F. of Remak, certain pale and non medullated nerve-fibers, found mostly in branches of the sympathetic nerve. F. of Sharpey, delicate proce es or rods that pa through and rivet together the concentric lamina; of bone. F., Sustentacular. See F. of Miiller. F. of Tomes, elongated and branched proce es of the odontoblasts of the pulp, filling the dentinal tubules of teeth.