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Medical Definition of Sharpey's fiber. : any of the thready processes of the periosteum that penetrate the tissue of the superficial lamellae of bones.
Sharpey was one of the founders of modern physiology in Great Britain and the first to occupy a chair of physiology in a British medical school. Joseph Lister was one of his pupils. In 1830 he wrote an early important work on cilia and ciliary motion.