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axoneme

[ ak-suh-neem ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of axoneme1

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

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