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Fimbria was able to defeat Mithridates'army on the river Rhyndacus.
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Fimbria, in pursuit, laid siege to the town, but had no fleet to prevent Mithridates'escape by sea.
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Fimbria quickly won a decisive victory over remaining Mithridatic forces and moved on the capital of Pergamum.
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The fimbria is a fringe around the opening of a fallopian tube, in the direction of the ovary, but not attached to the ovary.
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Researchers found that a significant percentage of women in the study had abnormal cells in the fallopian tube fimbria that were precancerous or cancerous.
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Once the follicle ruptures, the ripe ovum is expelled into the abdominal cavity where the fallopian tubes pick up the ovum with the fimbria.
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Fimbria called upon Sulla's legate, Lucullus to bring his fleet around to block Mithridates in, but it seems that Sulla had other plans.
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Fimbria, however, soon found that his men wanted nothing to do with opposing Sulla and many deserted or refused to fight in the coming battle.
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Discussion is also under way regarding the possibility of removing the fallopian tubes, or perhaps just the fimbria, as a way to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.
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- Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)
- In bacteriology, a fimbria (plural fimbriae), also called pili, is a proteinaceous appendage in many Gram-negative bacteria that is thinner and shorter than a flagellum. This appendage ranges from 3-10 nanometers in diameter and can be up to several micrometers long. ...
- Fimbriidae is a family of Bivalves. Some modern studies indicate that Fimbriidae should be included in the family Lucinidae. The family contains one recent genus Fimbria with two known species.
- With regard to the brain, the fimbria is a prominent band of white matter along the medial edge of the hippocampus.
- (Fimbrium) A pilus (Latin for 'hair'; plural : pili) is a hairlike appendage found on the surface of many bacteria. ...
- (Fimbriae) Fringelike extensions from the borders of the open end of the uterine tube.
- (Fimbriae) Short, hair-like projections or appendages (organelles) on the outer surface of certain bacteria composed of protein subunits (pilin) extending outward from the surface that act as a virulence factor by promoting adherence; formerly known as pili; fimbria (singular).
- The finger-like extensions on the fallopian tubes that sweep the egg into the fallopian tube.
- (pl. fimbriae, adj. fimbriate)
