filopodium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A slender cytoplasmic projection which extends from the leading edge of a migrating cell

filopodium filopodia

From filum (“thread”) + -podium (“leg-like structure”).

microspike

lamellipodium lobopodium pseudopodium

filopodial

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