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cilium

[ UK /sˈɪli‍əm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms
  2. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

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  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • In Darwin’s Black Box, I discussed large cellular structures called the cilium and the flagellum, both of which help cells move around in liquid, acting like propellers. The Edge of Evolution
  • The connecting neck is actually a modified, nonmotile cilium, so it is suspected that supplies reach the OS by IFT. The Edge of Evolution
  • In 494 B.C., the plebeians threatened to leave Rome and set up their own independent state (concilium plebis).
  • When cytochalasin D, a small molecule which permeates cells and inhibits cytoskeleton polymerization, was applied to one of the identified proteins, it repaired cilium formation in cells carrying mutations. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • By contrast, cells also contain a single, nonmotile cilium known as the primary cilium. Scientific American
  • Each hair-like cilium is associated with a set of tubules and structural protein molecules that make up a kinetosome.
  • Many proteins of the eukaryotic flagellum also called a cilium or undulipodium are known to be dispensable, because functional swimming flagella that lack these proteins are known to exist. New Scientist Investigates the Biologic Institute - The Panda's Thumb
  • These unicellular photoreceptors contain both the putative photosensory microvilli and the shielding pigment granules within the same cell, which also carries a motor cilium that enables the larva to show phototactic behavior.
  • Unlike the tower of Iacocca Hall, the cilium is a dynamic structure, in which many of its protein parts are actively altered in response to changing internal and external conditions. The Edge of Evolution
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