hollowfiber

See also: hollow-fiber

English

Etymology

From hollow +‎ fiber.

Adjective

hollowfiber (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of hollowfibre
   • 2015, Frank Sellke, Pedro J. del Nido, Scott J. Swanson, Sabiston and Spencer Surgery of the Chest, →ISBN:

     Generally, however, for older children and adults, a new circuit with a hollowfiber membrane is used, which takes a little time to deair and can be established within 15 minutes.

   • 2015, Karl Skorecki, Glenn M. Chertow, Philip A. Marsden, Brenner and Rector's The Kidney, →ISBN:

     Virtually all of the commercial dialyzers available in the United States are hollowfiber dialyzers.

   • 2015, Anil K. Pabby, Syed S.H. Rizvi, Ana Maria Sastre Requena, Handbook of Membrane Separations, →ISBN, page 773:

     They used a polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) hollowfiber (HF) membrane module, realized at KRICT (Korea) for treating a gas mixture made of 11 vol% CO2 and 89 vol% N2 with an absorbent stream containing 0.34 M triethanolamine (TEA).

Noun

hollowfiber (countable and uncountable, plural hollowfibers)

1. Alternative form of hollowfibre

Anagrams

• hollow-fibre, hollowfibre