Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to kinocilia.
With motion toward the kinociliary side of the cell, the longer stereocilia have the least resistance so that bending occurs near the distal end of the kinocilium as a distal arch of the ciliary apparatus.
1972, Basic Aspects of Central Vestibular Mechanisms, page 722 more examples
The precisely organized staircase-like morphology of the hair bundle is maintained by a series of extracellular filaments between adjacent stereocilia: kinociliary links, ankle links, lateral links, and tip links.
2011, Colleen G. Le Prell, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances, page 184The accessory structures (statoliths, statoconial layers, cupulae) are attached to the tips of these kinociliary groups; because of the inclination of the ciliary group, this attachment is only from the side opposite to the acute angle the group forms with the surface of the cell.
2013, David J. Lim, Cell and Molecular Biology of the Ear, page 5
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