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kinocilia

kinocilia is the plural of kinocilium.

Meaning of kinocilium

Noun

kinocilium (plural kinocilia)

  1. A special type of cilium on the apex of hair cells, located in the sensory epithelium of the vertebrate inner ear and involved in the senses of movement and hearing.

Words formed from kinocilia

Questions about kinocilia

What is kinocilia the plural of?
Kinocilia is the plural of kinocilium.

Words near kinocilia in the dictionary

  1. kino
  2. kino red
  3. kinocentrum
  4. kinocidin
  5. kinocidins
  6. kinocilia
  7. kinocilial
  8. kinociliar
  9. kinociliary
  10. kinocilium
  11. kinodynamic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kinocilia (page history and authors); kinocilium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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