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extraciliary

extraciliary adjective: outside of a cilium.

Adjective

extraciliary (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a cilium.
    • Additionally, cilia-related proteins have also been found in extraciliary organelles.2015 May 19, Sandra Habbig, Max Christoph Liebau, “Ciliopathies - from rare inherited cystic kidney diseases to basic cellular function”, in Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics, volume 2, →DOI

Origin of extraciliary

From extra- + ciliary.

Words that rhyme with extraciliary

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Questions about extraciliary

What does extraciliary mean?
Extraciliary means outside of a cilium.
What part of speech is extraciliary?
Extraciliary is an adjective.

Words near extraciliary in the dictionary

  1. extrachoroidal
  2. extrachromophoric
  3. extrachromosomal
  4. extrachromosomally
  5. extrachurch
  6. extraciliary
  7. extracisternal
  8. extracivic
  9. extracivilizational
  10. extraclassical
  11. extraclassroom

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