| meridional fibres | The longitudinal fibres of the ciliary muscle. Synonym: fibrae meridionales. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| periodontal ligament fibres | The collagen fibre's, running from the cementum to the alveolar bone, that suspend a tooth in its socket; they include apical, oblique, horizontal, and alveolar crest fibre's, indicating that the orientation of the fibre's varies at different levels. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gratiolet's fibres | The massive, fanlike fibre system passing from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus to the visual cortex (striate or calcarine cortex, area 17 of Brodmann); the fibres follow the retrolenticular and sublenticular limbs of the internal capsule into the corona radiata but they curve back along the lateral wall of the temporal and occipital horns of the lateral ventricle to the striate cortex on the medial surface and pole of the occipital lobe. Synonym: radiatio optica, geniculocalcarine radiation, geniculocalcarine tract, Gratiolet's fibres, Gratiolet's radiation, occipitothalamic radiation, Wernicke's radiation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gray fibres | A fibre having no myelin covering (CNS); a naked axon; in the PNS represented by all axons lying in troughs in a single Schwann cell (Schwann cell unit); a slow conducting fibre. Synonym: gray fibres, nonmedullated fibres, Remak's fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| periventricular fibres | A heterogeneous system of thin nerve fibres in the periventricular gray matter of the hypothalamus; the dorsal longitudinal fasciculus is a caudal continuation of the system. Synonym: fibrae periventriculares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cholinergic fibres | Nerve fibres liberating acetylcholine at the synapse after an impulse. (12 Dec 1998) |
| circular fibres | The circular fibres of the ciliary muscle. Synonym: fibrae circulares, Muller's fibres, Muller's muscle, Rouget's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mineral fibres | Long, pliable, cohesive natural or manufactured filaments of various lengths. They form the structure of some minerals. The medical significance lies in their potential ability to cause various types of pneumoconiosis (e.g., asbestosis) after occupational or environmental exposure. (12 Dec 1998) |
| climbing fibres | Nerve fibre's in the cerebellar cortex that synapse upon smooth branchlets of Purkinje cell dendrites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pilomotor fibres | Nerve fibre's that innervate the erector muscles of hair follicles responsible for piloerection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weitbrecht's fibres | One of several longitudinal folds of the articular capsule of the hip joint reflected onto the femoral neck deep to which the retinacular branches of the medial femoral circumflex artery pass to reach the femoral head. Synonym: retinaculum capsulae articularis coxae, Weitbrecht's fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commissural fibres | Nerve fibre's crossing the midline and connecting two corresponding parts or regions of the nervous system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mossy fibres | Highly branched nerve fibre's in the cerebellar cortex that terminate in rosette formations and synapse upon granule cell dendrites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mossy fibres, hippocampal | Axons of certain cells in the dentate gyrus. They project to the polymorphic layer of the dentate gyrus and to the proximal dendrites of pyramidal cells of the hippocampus. These mossy fibres should not be confused with mossy fibres that are cerebellar afferents (see nerve fibres). (12 Dec 1998) |
| motor fibres | Nerve fibre's that transmit impulses that activate effector cells, e.g., in muscle or gland tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |