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A filament is a variously thick and variously long optically dense and light-reflecting thread attached at one or both ends to the surface. It may be naked or enveloped, entirely or in part, by attached material that shows two components: an amorphous (translucent) and a granular (optically dense and light-reflecting) one. In the majority of filaments both are discernible, mixed in various proportions; in some, particularly in the smaller ones, either only the amorphous or only the granular component can be discerned. Some filaments show a very dense light-reflecting nucleus in which no structures are discernible, and occasional ones seem enveloped by material that appears sticky.
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Tabery, H.M. (2012). The Morphology and Dynamics of Filaments. In: Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca and Filamentary Keratopathy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31028-7_6
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