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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

multiciliary en · ADJ

Etymology

From multi- + ciliary.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having 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: