multiciliary

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ ciliary

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪliəɹi
  • Rhymes: -ɪliɛəɹi

Adjective

multiciliary (not comparable)

  1. Having multiple cilia
    • 2015 September 15, “Is the Schwabe Organ a Retained Larval Eye? Anatomical and Behavioural Studies of a Novel Sense Organ in Adult Leptochiton asellus (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) Indicate Links to Larval Photoreceptors”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      The pigmented epithelium is innervated by bundles of nerve fibres and contains multiciliary cells and round basal cells with epithelial projections, both of which could be sensory [3 ].
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