FILAMENT
\fˈɪləmənt], \fˈɪləmənt], \f_ˈɪ_l_ə_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of FILAMENT
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
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A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A slender thread or fibre, such as animal and vegetable tissues, as well as some mineral structures, are composed of; the long threadlike part which supports the anther.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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This word is used synonymously with fibril; thus, we say, a nervous or cellular filament or fibril. Also, the glairy, thread-like substance which forms in the urine in some diseases, and which depends on a particular secretion from the mucous membrane of the urinary passages.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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