Populations of thin, motile processes found covering the surface of ciliates (CILIOPHORA) or the free surface of the cells making up ciliated EPITHELIUM. Each cilium arises from a basic granule in the superficial layer of CYTOPLASM. The movement of cilia propels ciliates through the liquid in which they live. The movement of cilia on a ciliated epithelium serves to propel a surface layer of mucus or fluid. (King & Stansfield, A Dictionary of Genetics, 4th ed)
    

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De phaenomeno generali et fundamentali motus vibratorii continui in membranis cum externis tum internis animalium plurimorum et superiorum et inferiorum ordinum obvii : commentatio physiologica / Scripserunt Prof. Joh. Ev. Purkinje et Dr. G. Valentin, Wratislavienses.

Action of cilia and the effect of drugs on their activity.

Ueber die Flimmerbewegung / von Alexander Stuart.

Über die Flimmerbewegung / von Th. W. Engelmann.

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De phaenomeno generali et fundamentali motus vibratorii continui in membranis cum externis tum internis animalium plurimorum et superiorum et inferiorum ordinum obvii : commentatio physiologica / Scripserunt Prof. Joh. Ev. Purkinje et Dr. G. Valentin, Wratislavienses.

Action of cilia and the effect of drugs on their activity.

Ueber die Flimmerbewegung / von Alexander Stuart.

Action of cilia and the effect of drugs on their activity.

Über die Flimmerbewegung / von Th. W. Engelmann.