cilia

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The 30-centimeter-long adult grows out of a larva that is little more than a sesame seed–size blob with an eyespot at one end and a band of cilia around its body.

From Science Magazine

These tiny creatures are called ciliates because they are covered in tiny hair-like projections call cilia.

From Salon

Researchers have shown that progesterone decreases the cilia’s movement and makes it harder to expel outside particles that wander into the body.

From Washington Post

Next, the researchers had to figure out how to pattern a surface with thousands of their artificial cilia.

From Scientific American

Another such wall, looking like unearthly cilia under a lavender-lit microscope, anchors one end of the upper dining area — which, with its capacious white pleather semicircular booths, is where the parties truly get started.

From Seattle Times