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Ciliated, Ciliate  adj.  Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.





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... seems that in Balanoglossus we at last find a form which, though no doubt specialised for its burrowing sand-life, and possibly to some extent degenerate, yet has not to any large extent fallen from an ancestral eminence. The ciliated epidermis, the long worm-like form, and the complete absence of segmentation of the body-muscles lead us to forms like the Nemertines. The great proboscis of Balanoglossus may well be compared to the invaginable organ similarly ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Ciliated" :   rough, ciliated protozoan, ciliate


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