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Cilium
An organelle that protrudes outward from the cell body. It consists of a specialized arrangement of 9 doublet microtubules in a ring with or without a core of 2 microtubules and is enclosed in a plasma membrane coat. Motile cilia contain the motor protein dynein. (NCI Thesaurus)
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