ciliary movement

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The rhythmic sweeping movement characteristic of epithelial cell cilia or ciliate protozoans.

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Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”
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But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.
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Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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The feminist movement has encouraged women that they can initiate romantic relationships, too.
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Even in the parts of the movement he does cover, some people and efforts are missing.
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Selections for practice should be chosen which contain much variety of thought and feeling and are smooth in movement.
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Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
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The major-general kept him well informed of every movement of the enemy, and pointed out the dangerous isolation of Davout.
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The significance of time is determined by the movement of any selection, or, in other words, the rhythm.
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He sympathized with that movement which, during his childhood, culminated in the Cavite Conspiracy (vide p. 106).
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