verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈfibrilˌlated or ˈfibrilˌlating
to experience or cause to experience fibrillation
fibrillate in American English
(ˈfaibrəˌleit, ˈfɪbrə-) (verb-lated, -lating)
transitive verb
1.
to cause to undergo fibrillation
intransitive verb
2.
to undergo fibrillation
Derived forms
fibrillative
adjective
Word origin
[1830–40; fibrill(a) + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baby talk, format, isometric, rococo, walkover-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'fibrillate' in a sentence
fibrillate
The high propensity of insulin to fibrillate causes severe biomedical and biotechnological complications.
Mahvish Muzaffar, Atta Ahmad 2011, 'The mechanism of enhanced insulin amyloid fibril formation by NaCl is better explainedby a conformational change model.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3221682?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Hemp fibers were shown to remain longer and fibrillate more than flax fibers, leading to higher aspect ratio.
Heidi Peltola, Bo Madsen, Roberts Joffe, Kalle Nättinen 2011, 'Experimental Study of Fiber Length and Orientation in Injection Molded Natural Fiber/StarchAcetate Composites', Advances in Materials Science and Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/891940. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)