(cell and molecular biology) Any of the fibrils converging on desmosomes in epithelial cells.
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A fibril emanating from epithelial cells. Recent electron microscopy has shown such fibrils to be irregular formations of the cell membrane.
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One of the fine fibrils in epithelial cells, thought to give a supporting framework to the cell.
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