filamentous
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NETs are produced through a specialised form of innate immune response known as NETosis, whereby neutrophils expel their DNA to form filamentous structures embedded with cytotoxic enzymes capable of rapidly trapping and neutralizing pathogens.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025
Head and tail viruses infect bacteria and have a head that is similar to icosahedral viruses and a tail shape like filamentous viruses.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Dangling from the bottom, like the tentacles of a jellyfish, was a mass of filamentous roots.
From Golf Digest • May 8, 2020
Everyone knows that the seeds, under silky, filamentous parachutes, ride the breeze far and wide.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018
Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
