Usage examples (25)

• For one, the trachea is lined with millions of tiny hairs called cilia that trap any gunk you might have breathed in.
• The inner ear is lined with tiny hair cells called cilia, which pick up the sound vibrations a relay them to the brain.
• Delicate, hair-like filaments, not unlike the pile on velvet, called cilia, spring from the epithelial lining of the air tubes.
• Most ciliates are single-celled organisms covered with tiny hair-like structures known as cilia - which is Latin for eyelashes.