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What does immotile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Not motile (lacking the ability to move)
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The immotile cilia lack the motor protein dynein, which is essential for their movement.
And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled.
When one set of contestants comprises a swarm of tiny, highly mobile sperm and the other a few large, immotile eggs, there is a certain inevitability about the outcome.
Impairment of mucocilary function as occurs in cystic fibrosis and immotile cilia syndrome, is associated with lung H. influenzae infection.
Many of these immotile spermatids are dislodged from the spermatheca and swept away as oocytes parade through the reproductive tract.
All these factors can cause not only low counts, zero counts, and immotile sperms that lead to infertility, but also cancers in some cases.

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