kinetodesma

kinetodesma
ki·ne·to·des·ma (kĭ-ne″to-desґmə) pl. kinetodesmaґta [kineto- + Gr. desmos band, ligament] one of a bundle of fine, striated fibrils, each of which arises close to the base of a basal body and runs anteriorly parallel to and just beneath the surface of certain ciliate protozoa; the kinetodesmata serve to connect the basal bodies in longitudinal rows. Called also kinetodesmos.

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  • kinetodesma — Longitudinally oriented cytoplasmic fibrils associated with, and always on the right of, the kinetosomes of ciliates …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • kinetodesmos — ki·ne·to·des·mos (kĭ ne″to desґmos) kinetodesma …   Medical dictionary

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