Meanings
adjectivemulticiliary (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving multiple cilia
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 ].
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
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with multiciliary
auxiliarybiliarydomiciliaryciliarymiliarymucociliaryanteciliaryatrabiliarycircumciliaryextraciliaryinterciliaryintraciliaryiridociliarynasociliarynobiliarynonciliarypericiliarypostciliarypreciliaryretinociliarysuperciliary
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