| Name: | Kupffer's vesicle |
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| Synonyms: | ciliated organ of asymmetry |
| Definition: | Small but distinctive epithelial sac containing fluid, located midventrally posterior to the yolk cell or its extension, and transiently present during most of the segmentation period. Kupffer's vesicle has been compared to the mouse embryonic node. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000001] |
| Name: | cilium movement |
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| Synonyms: | ciliary motility, cilium beating, flagellar motility, flagellar movement, flagellum movement, microtubule-based flagellum movement |
| Definition: | The directed, self-propelled movement of a cilium. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0003341] QuickGO AmiGO |