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- noun Plural form of
microvillus .
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Examples
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These papillae have small hairs called microvilli that tell a person's brain how to interpret individual flavors.
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Mouth Health: Your Taste Buds Explained 2010
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More specifically, the tissue was missing tiny projections, called microvilli, that house bacteria and help them multiply.
The Why Files 2010
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Example: the microvilli on the insides of the small intestines where the lactase enzyme is made.
Organelles Could Fight Cancer, Even Lactose Intolerance Steve Carper 2008
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It is no easy task to distill explanations about photons, bony ossicles and microvilli into a few paragraphs of English and Tibetan text.
Seeing science through a spiritual lens, with the Smithsonian's help Amy Yee 2010
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Without these microvilli, everything we eat would taste the same.
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Mouth Health: Your Taste Buds Explained 2010
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Have they removed bits of your intestine to check for damaged villi microvilli? yet?
The Doctor is in, but I am OUT Elizabeth McClung 2008
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These food particles are then trapped on mucous-coated microvilli (peaks and valleys on the cell membrane which increase the surface area of the cell for the purpose of absorption).
Protozoa 2008
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Its lining is made up of millions of leaflike structures called villi, which in turn are covered with millions of microvilli.
Gut Reactions 2008
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Prominin, a novel microvilli-specific polytopic membrane protein of the apical surface of epithelial cells, is targeted to plasmalemmal protrusion of non-epithelial cells.
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The lumen of the vessels was collapsed and microvilli were more branched in the same group.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franco Folli et al. 2010
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