ALL meanings of flame cell
flame cell
F f - noun flame cell one of the hollow cells terminating the branches of the excretory tubules of certain invertebrates, having a tuft of continuously moving cilia. 1
- noun flame cell an organ of excretion in flatworms: a hollow cup-shaped cell containing a bunch of cilia, whose movement draws in waste products and wafts them to the outside through a connecting tubule 0
- noun flame cell a hollow cell in the excretory tubules of many lower animals, as flatworms, with an internal tuft of cilia that produces movement of the excretory products 0
- noun flame cell A specialized excretory cell that composes the protonephridium in nemerteans, rotifers, and some flatworms. 0