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Filiform

adjective
1.
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.  Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, threadlike, thready.






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"Filiform" Quotes from Famous Books



... proportionate to that of the amount of excitation from which they have suffered. That the testicles are very apt to suffer from the existence of a stricture is a well-known fact. I have myself worried over a case of stricture, in whom the attempted passage of a filiform bougie was always immediately followed by a severe attack of epididymitis, and who had always been afflicted with a tenderness and a tendency to inflammation of the testes. I have also noticed a much greater tendency ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino



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