microvillar

micro- +‎ villar

microvillar (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a microvillus
   • 2000 December 8, Hui-Yun Chang & Donald F. Ready, “Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1”, in Science‎, volume 290, number 5498, DOI:10.1126/science.290.5498.1978, pages 1978-1980:

     At about 90% of pupal development (pd), after the onset of rhodopsin expression at 75% pd, RTW microfilaments elongated commensurate with the increasing microvillar length and gathered into bundles (Fig. 1 D).

   • 1998 January 23, Valerie Mermall et al., “Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction”, in Science‎, volume 279, number 5350, DOI:10.1126/science.279.5350.527, pages 527-533:

     Brush border M1 tethers the microvillar core bundle to the plasma membrane of intestinal microvilli (3).

• amicrovillar