cilium

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
    — It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
  2. One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
  3. One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
  4. An eyelash.

词形变化

cilia plural

词汇关系

下位词
ciliolum
衍生词
ciliary ciliate cilio- kinocilium macrocilium monociliate monocilium stereocilium uniciliate
相关词
supercilium flagellum

词源

Etymology tree
Latin ciliumbor.
English cilium
Borrowed from Latin cilium (“eyelid”).
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