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Ciliary   Listen
adjective
Ciliary  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
2.
(Biol.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.





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... from the inorganic world than animals. Though in those microscopic Protophyta and Protozoa inhabiting the water—the spores of algae, the gemmules of sponges, and the infusoria generally—we see locomotion produced by ciliary action; yet this locomotion, while rapid relatively to their sizes, is absolutely slow. Of the Coelenterata, a great part are either permanently rooted or habitually stationary, and so have scarcely any self-mobility but that implied in the relative movements of parts; while the rest, of which ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer


Words linked to "Ciliary" :   cilial, ciliate, cilium, ciliary veins


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