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Category:GO:0031912 ! oral apparatus
name: oral apparatus
namespace: cellular_component
def: "Complex basket- or funnel-like structure used by the cell to collect food and channel it to the cytostome; includes specialized sub-structures made up of closely-spaced cilia and underlying basal bodies and fibrillar systems." [PMID:10503189]
comment: Note that this term refers to a subcellular structure characteristic of ciliate protozoans, and should not be confused with oral anatomical structures of multicellular animals.
is_a: GO:0110165 ! cellular anatomical structure
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<GOterm>GO:0031912</GOterm>
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