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Definition of Vorticella

1. Noun. Any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk.

Definition of Vorticella

1. n. Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidæ. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

2. n. Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidæ. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.

Definition of Vorticella

1. [n -LAE or -LAS]

Medical Definition of Vorticella

1. Genus of ciliate protozoa. It has a bell shaped body with a belt of cilia round the mouth of the bell, to sweep food particles towards the mouth and a long stalk, connecting it to the substratum, which contains the contractile spasmoneme. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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