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FILAMENTOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Synonyms:
filamentlike; filamentous; filiform; threadlike; thready
Classified under:
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Derivation:
filament (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)
Context examples:
A genus of filamentous, anaerobic, Gram-negative bacteria in the phylum Fusobacteria.
(Fusobacterium, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of filamentous fungi in the phylum Ascomycota that is widely distributed in soil and in association with plants.
(Fusarium, NCI Thesaurus)
A filamentous extracellular structure that is rich in the glycoprotein, fibrillin-1, and found in connective tissues where it can act as a scaffold for elastin.
(Fibrillin Microfibrils, NCI Thesaurus)
Minute branching canals in the tooth dentin that contain filamentous protoplasmic processes of the odontoblasts and extend radially from the pulp to the dentoenamel junction.
(Dentinal Tubule, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, fusiform, filamentous bacilli assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes.
(Capnocytophaga canimorsus, NCI Thesaurus)
A genus of filamentous, enveloped viruses with glycoprotein surface spikes, in the family Filoviridae.
(Ebola Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
A taxonomic family of filamentous or rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Actinobacteria with type genus actinomyces.
(Actinomycetaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
The nuclear lamina is a proteinaceous filamentous meshwork of lamin proteins interacting with integral proteins of the inner nuclear membrane, including emerin, and is thought to play a role in nuclear stability, chromatin structure, and gene expression.
(Nuclear Lamina, NCI Thesaurus)
Cytoskeletal Synthesis Inhibition consists of interference with, or restraint of, the activities of enzymes involved in the formation of the protein scaffolding network of filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and a cell its shape.
(Cytoskeletal Synthesis Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)
Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity consists of activities that interfere with, or restrain, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the network of protein scaffolding, filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges (microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and associated proteins) that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and to a cell.
(Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity, NCI Thesaurus)
