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Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
(
pl.
cilia
)
an eyelash.
a hairlike extension of a cell, usually occurring in tufts or tracts, as in the stereocilia of
hair cells
in the cochlea of the inner ear.
—ciliary
adj.
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