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metachronal rhythm

met·a·chron·al rhy·thm [ mèttə krn'l ríəm ] (plural met·a·chron·al rhy·thms)


noun 
Definition:
 
beating producing wavelike movement: the coordinated beating of numerous cilia that produces an appearance of traveling waves passing over the surface of simple organisms or epithelial surfaces

[<meta- + Greek khronos "time"]
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