[f. FIBRILLA + -ATE3.] intr. Of the blood: To turn into fibrillæ; to form fibrils or fibres.

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1839–47.  R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, III. 746/2. Place a drop of the colourless liquor sanguinis, before it fibrillates, on each of the large slips.

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1854.  Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat., ii. 29. Under the microscope it appears as an homogeneo-granular blastema, or basis-substance, with more or less marked tendency to fibrillate, or form actual fibres.

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  Hence Fibrillating ppl. a.

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1854.  Jones & Siev., Pathol. Anat., ii. 30. A thin layer of coagulating, fibrillating material is the medium which unites and holds together the divided surfaces, and forms the first organic connection.

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1875.  H. Walton, Dis. Eye, p. xxii. Its circumference is dark and fibrillating.

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