Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kinocilia

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The result of the debate was kept but I've also added a "factual accuracy" tag to the article and a mention of the relevant issues on the article's talk page. Rossami (talk) 06:36, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kinocilia[edit]

Sounds like gibberish to me (since it refers to a sensory fish hair cell, and last time I checked fish didn't have hair). But maybe it makes sense to a biologist or medicine student, in which case please tell me if this is valid, dicdef or indeed gibberish. Radiant! 13:41, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. Actually, they are for real. However, they are those hairs in your inner ear that tell your brain about which way your head is accelerating. This definition has nothing to do with what they really are (except as a description of a special case, I presume). Therefore, not even transwikiable. I'm not a bio guy, so perhaps there's enough research to build a whole article out of, but I should imagine it probably should just be a dicdef. With the correct definition of course. HyperZonk^talk 17:55, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
Cilia are a protective mechanism in humans combined with mucus. I don't think this definition is genuine. However, Kinocilia does get numerous Google results which it may be worth examining before assuming that this information is bogus. Hedley 20:08, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
Keep, rewrite and expand. @ Megan1967 23:11, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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