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A tenuous thread-like body, resembling a fibre of tow; a minute fibre. Often in scientific use, as applied to animal or vegetable structure.
Physiology. One of a number of thread-like bodies or filaments, that enter into the composition of… in animals. fibres of Corti: see Cortian, adj.