For one, the trachea is lined with millions of tiny hairs called cilia that trap any gunk you might have breathed in. From Wordnik.com. [You Raising Your Child] Reference
The inner ear is lined with tiny hair cells called cilia, which pick up the sound vibrations a relay them to the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Delicate, hair-like filaments, not unlike the pile on velvet, called cilia, spring from the epithelial lining of the air tubes. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Most ciliates are single-celled organisms covered with tiny hair-like structures known as cilia - which is Latin for eyelashes. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Indusia ciliate, the cilia (hairs) ending in glands. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The latter have cilia surrounding the head, which is globular. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
In addition to these minute teeth, there may be long or short cilia. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The cilia may be present during a short period only in the life of a. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They are provided with two cilia, closely resembling the motile cells of the. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The cilia move very rapidly when quite fresh, and are therefore not easily seen. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Independent movement is effected by special motile organs, the cilia or flagella. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
These cells sometimes have on the free surface delicate prolongations called cilia. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The action of the cilia, under the stimulus of the sperm, seems to be from without, inward. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
After a short period of activity, this loses its cilia, develops a wall, and begins to grow. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The presence of cilia tend to differentiate shagbark hickory from red hickory in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
To see the cilia it is necessary to kill the spermatozoids with iodine or some other reagent. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The cells thus formed are sometimes provided with two cilia, and are capable of active movement. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
On escaping, each mass of protoplasm swims away as a zoöspore, with two extremely delicate cilia. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Thus these tiny cilia act as dusters which Nature uses to keep the air tubes free and clean (Fig. 5). From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Preparations showing various forms of bacteria and the various types of cilia and their arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They are little oval bodies with two cilia, which may sometimes be rendered visible by staining with iodine. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
They line the mucous membrane in most of the air passages, and are so placed that the cilia project into the tubes. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Early in summer these Jelly-Fishes drop their eggs, little transparent pear-shaped bodies, covered with vibratile cilia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Nevertheless, there is more or less constancy in the type of distribution, &c., of the cilia for each species when growing at its best. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The rachis of the spike is very slender, angular, flexuous, narrower than the spikelets, scaberulous with a few long cilia at the angles. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
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