A small cilium or diminutive ciliary structure, used in specialized anatomical or zoological terminology.
From Latin cilium (eyelash) plus the diminutive suffix '-ella' meaning 'small,' literally creating 'small cilium.'
This ultra-specialized term shows how scientists create precise anatomical vocabulary by layering Latin and Greek building blocks—ciliella is to cilium what little is to big, giving researchers exact terminology for tiny variations in structure.
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