kinociliaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

kinociliary ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to kinocilia.
   • 1972, Basic Aspects of Central Vestibular Mechanisms^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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.