cilia

• “Hamada showed hair-like projections on the embryo called cilia produce a leftward flow of fluid outside the embryo, allowing the embryo to identify its left side.”

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• “Mutations impede the flow of chloride, causing the mucus to accumulate and impeding the hair-like particles called cilia from beating back and forth to clear out the mucus.”

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• “For one, the trachea is lined with millions of tiny hairs called cilia that trap any gunk you might have breathed in.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “The amount of water in the body generally decreases with age, which in turn decreases the action of tiny hairs, called cilia, in the nose that help wash it out.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Need a Tissue?

• “Each breath passes through or over lymph tissue and millions of hair like projections called cilia that filter, re-filter and remove any particles that may damage the lungs.”

  The Respiratory System: Anatomy 101

• “It is, in fact, a minute oval body, many hundred times smaller than the full grown creature, and it swims about with great activity by the help of multitudes of little hair-like filaments, called cilia, with which its body is covered.”

  Autobiography and Selected Essays

• “Delicate, hair-like filaments, not unlike the pile on velvet, called cilia, spring from the epithelial lining of the air tubes.”

  A Practical Physiology

• “The ciliated epithelium is marked by the presence of very fine hair-like processes called cilia, which develop from the free end of the cell and exhibit a rapid whip-like movement as long as the cell is alive.”

  A Practical Physiology

• “They consist of a gelatinous material enclosed in a delicate membrane, the whole or part of which is furnished with short vibrating hairs (called cilia), by means of which the animalcules swim through the water or convey the minute particles of their food to the orifice of the mouth.”

  Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume

• “In the inferior zoophytes — such as the Infusoria, Polypi, Medusæ — the whole body seems to exhibit an incessant action upon the surrounding fluid, maintained by means of “very minute and generally microscopic filaments” called cilia, and which apparently serve in the case of these genera not only the purpose of progressive motion, but also of respiration, and of procuring a supply of food.”

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