cilium

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Scientists have long known that abnormalities in a structure on kidney cells, or the primary cilium, cause cysts to form in kidneys.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Depending on its position, a cilium can be more effected by its neighbor than vice versa, especially in a dense carpet of cilia as it frequently occurs in nature.

From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023

Once the voltage is reversed, the oxygen is driven out of the platinum—and the cilium returns to its original shape.

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2022

He points out that Dogic's group created something that looks and acts very much like a cilium or flagellum with its multitude of proteins — but that may, in fact, work very differently.

From Nature • Jan. 4, 2016

Each of these had a body shaped like a pear, the small end being slightly incurved and produced into a long curved filament, or cilium, of extreme tenuity.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry