Cilium

//ˈsɪl.i.əm//

Synonyms for "cilium" (33 found)

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Translations

22 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • ресна noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)
  • ресница noun (hair along the margin of an organ)

Catalan

1 entries
  • cili noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • برژۆڵە noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Chinese

2 entries
  • 纖毛 /纤毛 noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)
  • 纤毛 noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Czech

2 entries
  • brva noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)
  • řasinka noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Finnish

2 entries
  • ripsi noun (hair along the margin of an organ)
  • värekarva noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

French

1 entries
  • cil noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Greek

1 entries
  • βλεφαρίδα noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Italian

1 entries
  • ciglio noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Māori

1 entries
  • hururiki noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Nepali

1 entries
  • पक्ष्म noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries
  • kûlk noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Polish

2 entries
  • rzęska noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)
  • rzęska noun (hair along the margin of an organ)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • cílio noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Russian

1 entries
  • ресни́чка noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Spanish

1 entries
  • cilio noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Swedish

1 entries
  • cilie noun (hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

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The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]

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