filaments
21thin filaments — actin filaments, 7–9 nm in diameter and 1 μm in length, attached to the Z disks in striated muscle; they are composed of F actin associated with troponin and tropomyosin. See also myofilament …
22caudal filaments — (ARTHROPODA) 1. Thread like processes at the posterior end of the abdomen; see cercus. 2. For Crustacea see caudal ramus …
23gill filaments — 1. Finger like subdivisions of gills of various invertebrates. 2. (ANNELIDA) Finger like extensions of the body wall that function in respiration …
24lateral filaments — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) Cerci on the margins of the abdomen in some aquatic larvae …
25rostral filaments — see rostralis …
26septal filaments — (CNIDARIA: Anthozoa) Thread like processes arranged along the free edges of the septa that contain gland cells and nematocysts …
27root filaments of spinal nerve — fila radicularia nervi spinalis …
28neurofibrils — Filaments found in neurons; not necessarily neurofilaments in all cases, and in the older literature fibrils are composed of both microtubules and neurofilaments. Originally used by light microscopists to describe much larger fibrils seen… …
29laman — filaments vigilamment violemment …
30muscle — muscleless, adj. muscly, adj. /mus euhl/, n., v., muscled, muscling, adj. n. 1. a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body. 2. an organ, composed of muscle tissue, that contracts to produce a… …