cilium

Preposition: of

• protozoan: To kick off the series we show the beating cilia of a protozoan using high power phase contrast.
• bottom: Cilia of the peristomial bottom laid out in regular lines which follow the contour of the peristome.

Converse of object

• beat: A video clip taken by Edward of the beating cilia of a protozoan using phase contrast was shown in the January 1999 Micscape.
• call: Tiny hairs, called cilia, move the mucus to the back of the throat where it is swallowed.
• have: Most animals, even humans, have cilia similar to those of ciliates.
• use: The body is covered with small hair-like processes called cilia used for locomotion.
• possess: The cells of the blastula possess cilia on the outside for swimming.
• cause: He believes that the growing intensity of microwave radiations will cause the cilia in the cochlea to resonate.

Adjective modifier

• peristomal: Excluding peristomal cilia, both images are 59 pixels across.
• trochal: At 50 minutes, the trochal cilia reached a length of 15 µm.
• hair-like: At the front of the body they possess a crown of hair-like cilia.
• long: It is enveloped by a thick and stiff cuticle, that bears the numerous and long cilia.
• nasal: The Hydro Pulse® System is clinically proven to stimulate and restore nasal cilia.
• tiny: It had a circlet of cilia very near its front end and what looked like tiny cilia on its protruding " nose.

Modifies a noun

• movement: In the Drug Free Approach, efforts are directed to restore cilia movement.

Noun used with modifier

• beating: Most rotifers are less than 0.5 mm long, and feed by generating currents in the water using their beating cilia.
• body: It's oval, mostly transparent, vacuolated, with faintly visible longitudinal rows of body cilia.