Meanings
adjectiveextraciliary (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyOutside of a cilium.
Additionally, cilia-related proteins have also been found in extraciliary organelles.
2015 May 19, Sandra Habbig, Max Christoph Liebau, “Ciliopathies - from rare inherited cystic kidney diseases to basic cellular function”, in Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics, volume 2, →DOI
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with extraciliary
auxiliarybiliarydomiciliaryciliarymiliarymucociliaryanteciliaryatrabiliarycircumciliaryinterciliaryintraciliaryiridociliarymulticiliarynasociliarynobiliarynonciliarypericiliarypostciliarypreciliaryretinociliarysuperciliary
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Chicago
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