Henry Gray

The muscles are connected with the bones, cartilages, ligaments, and skin, either directly or through the intervention of fibrous structures called tendons or aponeuroses.

English Scientist

Claire Saffitz

Poached quince are so tender, aromatic, and rosy that you'd hardly believe the raw fruit is white, fibrous, and hard as a rock.

American Editor

Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

American Architect

The word 'fibrous' often implies a rough or chewy texture, particularly in foods.

Texture Implication

Describes the visible threads or strands in materials, not just the feel of them.

Visual Description

'Fibrous' indicates abnormal tissue growth that may affect an organ's function.

Medical Condition

Use 'fibrous' to discuss health issues, often linked to healing or disease.

Health Relevance

In geology, 'fibrous' refers to how some natural formations look, like thin threads.

Natural Structures

Describes the thread-like texture of minerals, important for identification.

Specific Texture

 you can elevate your feet on a stool and lean forwards with a straight back, which straightens the anorectal angle and eases the passage of waste. Going a day without a bowel movement isn’t necessarily cause for alarm. But if you are experiencing chronic constipation, simple dietary and lifestyle changes, like fibrous vegetables,

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 We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain. And in that fissure, what you can't see in this image, you'll have to trust me, there is a fibrous sheet of tissue.

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 the previously constricted blood vessels now expand in a process called vasodilation. About two to three days after the wound, the proliferative stage occurs, when fibroblast cells begin to enter the wound. In the process of collagen deposition, they produce a fibrous protein called collagen in the wound site,

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 And eye meat is something different, something more fibrous, something more powerful, perhaps. But what could that be, eye meat? I've been interested in computer programs all my life, actually. Computer programs are essentially trees, and when you make art with a computer program, there's kind of a problem.

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 The first pterosaur ever discovered was actually named for this characteristic. Pterodactyl is a combination of the Greek words for wing and finger. Each pterosaur wing consisted of a tough membrane laced with blood vessels, fibrous cords, and muscles,

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 deep-sea fishing why didn't they well the option seems to be taken was taken from them though the island had a dense forest it was comprised of palm trees with thin brittle bark and soft fibrous interiors making them really useless for

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 evidence of any feeling at all that is our main concern really because both of the brakes have failed to heal a fibrous tissue is formed between them called pseudarthrosis these false joints support the point of fracture and makes

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 And a hydrostatic skeleton uses two elements. The skeletal support comes from an interaction between a pressurized fluid and a surrounding wall of tissue that's held in tension and reinforced with fibrous proteins.

What we didn't know...

 concentrated solution but seeding points on the fibrous shell membrane as the calcium crystallizes entwined with special protein as it grows to form an egg shell finally comes the cuticle which helps

How An Egg Becomes A...

 they're made of keratin a tough fibrous protein normally found in nails and claws as the male withdraws the hooks scraped the walls of the vagina the barbs have two functions they help