cilia

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Looking at the lung cells under a microscope, Kliment saw ANT2 accumulating on their surfaces around hairlike projections called cilia, which sweep back and forth to clear mucus from lungs.

From Scientific American

For example, some glue bundles of their cilia into structures called cirri and can use them as legs, mouths, paddles or teeth.

From Scientific American

In the context of an embryo, the stem cells would have grown cilia, tiny hairlike cells that allow mucus to cover frog skin.

From Washington Post

Our own research indicates that dry air also reduces the ability of our body’s cilia—hairlike projections on cells lining airways—to remove viral particles and prevent them from reaching the lungs.

From Scientific American

There is light around the Moon: White corona, a hand of streaming cilia that warns and beckons.

From Scientific American