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CILIUM
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Irregular inflected form: cilia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cilium" is a kind of...):
cell organ; cell organelle; organelle (a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ)
Derivation:
cilial; ciliary (of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cilium" is a kind of...):
hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)
Holonyms ("cilium" is a part of...):
eyelid; lid; palpebra (either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye)
Derivation:
ciliary (of or relating to the human eyelash)
Context examples:
It has a core microtubule structure similar to that of a cilium.
(Kinocilium, NCI Thesaurus)
There is a defect in the function of the cilia that line the respiratory tract.
(Kartagener Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The section of a photoreceptor within the retina between the outer and inner segment which contains altered nonmotile cilium.
(Connecting Segment of the Photoreceptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
It may contain cytoplasmic processes (microvilli, stereocilia, and cilia).
(Apical Domain of the Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in cilia formation.
(B9D2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A complete cylindrical microtubule that is part of a microtubule doublet in cilia.
(A-Microtubule, NCI Thesaurus)
They send to the surface of the epithelium apical dendrites with non-motile cilia from which project odorant receptor molecules.
(Murine Olfactory Receptor Neurons, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Within the compact cilia of the olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) a cascade of enzymatic activity transduces the binding of an odorant molecule to a receptor into an electrical signal that can be transmitted to the brain.
(Olfactory Transduction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A Cell Movement Process consists of a change of position or place of a major cell surface extension (such as cilia, axons, micorovilli, filopodia), or of a whole cell or a cell body from one site to another.
(Cell Movement Process, NCI Thesaurus)
In bronchiolar subvariant, also called bronchiolization of alveoli, alveolar walls are lined by cuboidal to columnar cells with features of bronchiloar differentiation such as formation of cilia, Clara cell resemblance and presence of mucous granules.
(Alveoli Epithelial Hyperplasia of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
