kinociliary

English

Adjective

kinociliary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to kinocilia.
    • 1972, Basic Aspects of Central Vestibular Mechanisms‎, page 72:
      With motion toward the kinociliary side of the cell, the longer stereocilia have the least resistance so that bending occurs near the distal end of the kinocilium as a distal arch of the ciliary apparatus.
    • 2011, Colleen G. Le Prell, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances‎, page 184:
      The precisely organized staircase-like morphology of the hair bundle is maintained by a series of extracellular filaments between adjacent stereocilia: kinociliary links, ankle links, lateral links, and tip links.
    • 2013, David J. Lim, Cell and Molecular Biology of the Ear‎, page 5:
      The accessory structures (statoliths, statoconial layers, cupulae) are attached to the tips of these kinociliary groups; because of the inclination of the ciliary group, this attachment is only from the side opposite to the acute angle the group forms with the surface of the cell.
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