Medical Definition of Basal corpuscle
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| Structure found at the base of eukaryotic cilia and flagella consisting of a continuation of the nine outer sets of axonemal microtubules but with the addition of a C tubule to form a triplet (like the centriole).
May be self replicating and serves as a nucleating centre for axonemal assembly. Anchored in the cytoplasm by rootlets. Synonymous with kinetosome.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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