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stereocilia

stereocilia is the plural of stereocilium.

Meaning of stereocilium

Noun

stereocilium (plural stereocilia)

  1. Any of many nonmotile cellular structures resembling long microvilli; those of the inner ear are responsible for auditory transduction

Words formed from stereocilia

Questions about stereocilia

What is stereocilia the plural of?
Stereocilia is the plural of stereocilium.

Words near stereocilia in the dictionary

  1. stereochrome
  2. stereochromes
  3. stereochromic
  4. stereochromically
  5. stereochromy
  6. stereocilia
  7. stereocilial
  8. stereociliar
  9. stereociliary
  10. stereocilin
  11. stereocilium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stereocilia (page history and authors); stereocilium (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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