fibril
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In their experiments, the researchers found that one fibril with a 19.6 mm2 cross-section could support loads up to 1.56 kg.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
These weak, local interactions gain avidity by their summation over thousands of identical copies along the axis of the fibril.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
Fī′bril, a small fibre; one of the extremely minute threads composing an animal fibre; Fibril′la, a fibril, filament.—n.pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
