Cilium

Cilium

A minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially: one of a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid.

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cilium

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Hairlike locomotor structure on certain cells; a locomotor structure on a ciliate protozoan.

cilium

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A minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially: one of a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms ...

cilium

Garden; Gardening

A short, usually stiff, usually unicellular, marginal hair; a hair-like thread of the endostome, alternating with the segments.

cilium

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Populations of thin, motile processes found covering the surface of ciliates (ciliophora) or the free surface of the cells making up ciliated epithelium. Each cilium arises from a ...

cilium

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A short extension of the plasma membrane with an axoneme core that functions in cell mobility or movement of extracellular substances across the cell surface.

cilium

Health care; Genetic disorders

A minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially: one of a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms ...

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