Definition of Cilial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell.

Exact synonyms: Ciliary, Ciliate
Partainyms: Cilium, Cilium, Cilium
Derivative terms: Cilium, Cilium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cilial

ciggies
ciggy
cigs
ciguatera
ciguateras
ciguateratoxin
ciguateratoxins
ciguatoxin
ciguatoxins
cilantro
cilantros
cilastatin
cilastatin sodium
cilazapril
cilia
cilial (current term)
ciliary
ciliary arteries
ciliary artery
ciliary blepharitis
ciliary bodies
ciliary body
ciliary border of iris
ciliary canals
ciliary cartilage
ciliary crown
ciliary disk
ciliary folds
ciliary ganglion
ciliary ganglionic plexus

Literary usage of Cilial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East by Thomas Horsfield, Frederic Moore (1859)
"... the space along the exterior margin of the wing and broadly across the disc, a discal dot, two series of basal dots and a series of cilial dots, ..."

2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1908)
"The subterminal fascia makes a small brown spot in the costal cilia before apex, and in the whitish space before it is another brown cilial spot on costa. ..."

3. Municipal Government in Continental Europe by Albert Shaw (1895)
"... cilial labora tory. which since 1870 almost the entire business of slaughtering the metropolitan meat-supply has been concentrated. ..."

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