cilia
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
By combining high speed imaging with three dimensional reconstructions of more than 1,000 cells, the researchers showed how networks of fused neurons coordinate the beating of cilia on different parts of the animal's body.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026
Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that cells can also use the cell cycle to control how they sprout hair-like projections called cilia.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
In the lungs, their cilia sway back and forth to keep fluids like mucus from collecting.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
In other words, they substantially erase the preprogrammed magnetization that was shared by all of the microparticles when the cilia were fabricated.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Spirochetes, like the ones attached to M. paradoxa, joined up and became the cilia of eukaryotic cells.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
