Colorized illustration of the relative positions of successive cilia along the rows resulting in the metachronal wave observed on some ciliated epithelia.

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Keywords: biology, cell, cilia, ciliated, colorized, diagram, enhanced, epithelia, epithelium, histology, illustration, metachronal, wave