Medical Dictionary
intermediate filament
noun
Medical Definition of INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT
: any of a class of usually insoluble cellular protein fibers (as a neurofilament or an epithelial-cell cytoplasmic filament of keratin) composed of various fibrous polypeptides that serve especially to provide structural stability and strength to the cytoskeleton and are intermediate in diameter between microfilaments and microtubules
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