filo-, fil-, filari- +

1. A narrow gorge or pass that restricts lateral movement, as of troops.
2. A march in a line.

Composed of filaments.

1. A very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril; such as, filaments of gold.
2. A single fibril of natural or synthetic textile fiber, of indefinite length, sometimes several miles long.
3. A long slender cell or series of attached cells; such as, in some algae and fungi.
4. In botany, the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther.
5. In a light bulb or other incandescent lamp; the threadlike conductor, often of tungsten, in the bulb that is heated to incandescence by the passage of current.

Made up of long, interwoven or irregularly placed threadlike structures.

Filamentous.

The fine filaments that attach the ventral and dorsal roots of the spinal nerves to the spinal cord.

1. A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals.
2. A long filiform nematode belonging to the superfamily Filarioidea.

Pertaining to a filaria (or filariae), including the microfilaria stage.

1. A chronic disease due to one of the filaria species.
2. Any of various infections, often of the skin, eyes, and lymph nodes, caused by infestations of tissue with filariae.

1. Something that destroys Filaria.
2. The killing of filariae (roundworms).

In the form of, or resembling, filariae.

A superfamily or order of nematode parasites, the adults being threadlike worms which invade the tissues and body cavities where the female deposits embryonated eggs [prelarvae] known as microfilariae.

These microfilariae are ingested by blood-sucking insects in whom they pass their developmental stage and are returned to a human by the bites of such insects.

1. To place (papers, etc.) in order.
2. To put (documents) on record; borrowed from Middle French filer, "to string documents on a wire for preservation or reference.
3. A folder, cabinet, or other container that holds papers for convenient storage and reference>
4. A collection of related documents or papers arranged so that they can be consulted easily.
5. Computer information: a uniquely named collection of program instructions or data stored on a hard drive, disk, or other storage medium and treated as a single entity.
6. A line of people or things standing or moving one behind the other.
7. Etymology: A line, a row; a collection of papers. From Latin filum, "thread" or "string".

Threadlike or shaped like threads.

1. An ornamental work of fine wire.
2. Delicate and intricate ornamentation; usually, in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire.
3. Anything very delicate or fanciful; such as, a filigree of frost.

Corrupted from filigrane, a kind of enrichment on gold and silver, wrought delicately in the manner of little threads or grains, or of both intermixed.