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axoneme

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[ak-suh-neem] / ˈæk səˌnim /

noun

Cell Biology.

  1. the shaft within a flagellum or cilium, containing twenty microtubules arranged as nine doublets and two singlets.

Etymology

Origin of axoneme

1900–05; axo- + -neme < Greek nêma thread

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