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ax•o•neme
(ak′sə nēm′),USA pronunciation n. [Cell Biol.]
- the shaft within a flagellum or cilium, containing twenty microtubules arranged as nine doublets and two singlets. Cf. nine plus two array.
- Greek nêma thread
- axo- + -neme 1900–05