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Definition of Fibres
1. fibre [n] - See also: fibre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibres
Literary usage of Fibres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"As these fibres emerge from between the pyramids a few fibres from each ...
Scattered amongst these fibres, or between them and adjacent parts of the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The white matter of the cerebrum consists of medullated fibres, ... Projection or
peduncular fibres, which connect-the hemisphere with the medulla oblongata ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The percentage composition of the fibres is determined microscopically by ...
The individual fibres are recognized by their characteristic shapes and the ..."
4. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"SOME account of the medullated fibres of the grey rami of the ... I came to the
conclusion that the great majority of the small medullated fibres in the ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"The Course of fibres in the Posterior Horn of the Human Spinal Cord, ... The normal
posterior horn receives two classes of fibres, large and small, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Some of the fibres of tho anterior roots end in nerve-cells in the anterior ...
Diagram to Illustrate the course taken by the fibres of the nerve-roots on ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"vertical fibres, the deeper ones being flattened from above downwards, and
resembling circular ... The expansion of the fibres is greatest towards the apex, ..."
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