[L. fimbria thread, fibre, fringe.] A fringe: spec. a. Anat. the fringed end of the Fallopian tube; b. Bot. (see quot. 1847).
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 304. There runs all round the sides of the fish a kind of fimbria.
1754–64. Smellie, Midwif., I. ii. § 2. 97. The cavity of each [of the Fallopian tubes] ends in an open mouth … from the brim of which is expanded the Fimbria.
1847. Craig, Fimbria, in Botany, the dentated or fringe-like ring of the operculum of mosses, by the elastic power of which the operculum is displaced.
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 625. The Fallopian tube of each side is connected with the ovary by one fimbria, and acts at periods of ovulation as its excretory duct.
