Definition of Ciliates. Meaning of Ciliates. Synonyms of Ciliates

- on other ciliates. Some ciliates parasitize animals, although only one species, Balantidium coli, is known to cause disease in humans. Ciliates reproduce...
- called trumpet animalcules, are a genus of filter-feeding, heterotrophic ciliates, representative of the heterotrichs. They are usually horn-shaped, and...
- ingest other protists, including algae and other ciliates. Bursaria are the largest-sized colpodean ciliates. Bursaria is the sole genus in the family Bursariidae...
- Lacrymaria is a genus of ciliates. Its best known species is the "Tear of Swan", Lacrymaria olor. The genus includes the following species: Lacrymaria...
- Carchesium is a genus of usually colonial peritrich ciliates in the Vorticellidae with a spirally contractile stalk. The inverted bell-shaped cells have...
- Opercularia is a genus of freshwater, colonial, sessiline peritrich ciliates. As consumers of free bacteria in the water, several species of Opercularia...
- epithelium is further divided into two categories: ciliated and non-ciliated (glandular). The ciliated part of the simple columnar epithelium has tiny hairs...
- zoologist C. T. von Siebold proposed that the bodies of protozoa such as ciliates and amoebae consisted of single cells, similar to those from which the...
- Uronema is a genus of ciliates in the family Uronematidae. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes. Infusoires: comprenant la physiologie et la classification...
- or ciliated eccrine gland metaplasia. Cutaneous ciliated cysts are asymptomatic. They are usually found on the lower extremities. Cutaneous ciliated cysts...