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Open :: Open (v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers..

Endomysium :: Endomysium (n.) The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

Cotton :: Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half..

Fibre :: Fibre (n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber..

Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber..

Arenga :: Arenga (n.) A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm..

Funiculus :: Funiculus (n.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord..

Perineurium :: Perineurium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma..

Fibreless :: Fibreless (a.) Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Cerebrifugal :: Cerebrifugal (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards..

Disdiaclast :: Disdiaclast (n.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

Amphiaster :: Amphiaster (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle..

Sericin :: Sericin (n.) A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..

Duct :: Duct (n.) A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber..

Tucum :: Tucum (n.) A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also tecum, and tecum fiber..

Lax :: Lax (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber..

Felt :: Felt (n.) A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving..

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