Cilium Synonyms

sĭlē-əm
Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. eyelash
  2. lash
  3. hair

Words Related to Cilium

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. flagellum
  2. ciliated
  3. stereocilia
  4. hair-like
  5. microvilli
  6. notochord
  7. hypha
  8. peristomal
  9. photoreceptor
  10. septum

Cilium Sentence Examples

  • When the nematocyst is completely developed, the cnidoblast passes outwards so as to occupy a superficial position in the ectoderm, and a delicate protoplasmic process of sensory nature, termed the cnidocil (cn) projects from the cnidoblast like a fine hair or cilium.

  • The sensory cells are slender epithelial cells, often with a cilium or stiff protoplasmic process, and should perhaps be regarded as the only ectoderm-cells which retain the primitive ciliation of the larval ectoderm, otherwise lost in all Hydrozoa.

  • Until the recent discovery by Williams of motility, by means of a single cilium, of the antherozoids of Dictyota and Taonia, they were believed to be immotile bodies, like the male cells of red seaweeds.

  • A motile rodlet with one cilium and with a spore formed inside.

  • The inner layer or endoderm is also a cellular layer, and is chiefly made up of columnar cells, each bearing a cilium at its free extremity and terminating internally in a long muscular fibre.