microvillar
microvillar adjective: of or pertaining to a microvillus.
Adjective
microvillar (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a microvillus
- At about 90% of pupal development (pd), after the onset of rhodopsin expression at 75% pd, RTW microfilaments elongated commensurate with the increasing microvillar length and gathered into bundles (Fig. 1 D).2000 December 8, Hui-Yun Chang, Donald F. Ready, “Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1”, in Science, volume 290, number 5498, →DOI, pages...
- Brush border M1 tethers the microvillar core bundle to the plasma membrane of intestinal microvilli (3).1998 January 23, Valerie Mermall et al., “Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction”, in Science, volume 279, number 5350, →DOI, pages 527–533
Origin of microvillar
From micro- + villar.
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Words that rhyme with microvillar
Questions about microvillar
- What does microvillar mean?
- Microvillar means of or pertaining to a microvillus.
- What part of speech is microvillar?
- Microvillar is an adjective.
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