cilium
has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] (zoology) hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free unicellular organisms
Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)The natural anatomical and physiological defensive features of the upper respiratory_tract , such_as the turbinates of the nose and the cilia of the trachea and larger bronchi , are capable of impinging out the larger particles to which we are ordinarily exposed in our daily existence . Related terms |
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