| ciliated | Having cilia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ciliated epithelium | Any epithelium having motile cilia on the free surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliates | Common name for members of the Ciliata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliectomy | Excision of a portion of the ciliary body. Synonym: ciliectomy. Origin: cyclo-+ G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| cilio- | Cilia or meaning ciliary, in any sense; eyelashes. Origin: L. Cilium, eyelid (eyelash) (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliogenesis | The formation of cilia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliophora | A phylum of protozoa characterised by the presence of cilia at some time during the life cycle. It comprises three classes: kinetofragminophorea, oligohymenophorea, and polymenophorea. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ciliophora infections | Infections with protozoa of the phylum ciliophora. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cilioretinal | Pertaining to the ciliary body and the retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cilioscleral | Relating to the ciliary body and the sclera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliospinal | Relating to the ciliary body and the spinal cord; denoting in particular the ciliospinal centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliospinal centre | The preganglionic motor neurons in the first thoracic segment of the spinal cord which give rise to the sympathetic innervation of the dilator muscle of the eye's pupil. Synonym: Budge's centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliospinal reflex | Dilation of the pupil following scratching of the skin of the neck. Synonym: ciliospinal reflex, cutaneous pupil reflex, cutaneous-pupillary reflex, skin-pupillary reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliotoxicity | The characteristic of a drug or condition which impairs ciliary activity (generally refers to respiratory mucosal cilia) (e.g., tobacco smoke). (05 Mar 2000) |
| cilium | <cell biology> Motile appendage of eukaryotic cells that contains an axoneme, a bundle of microtubules arranged in a characteristic fashion with nine outer doublets and a central pair (9+2 arrangement). Active sliding of doublets relative to one another generates curvature and the asymmetric stroke of the cilium drives fluid in one direction (or the cell in the other direction). (18 Nov 1997) |