Civil liberties are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation without due process.
Ciliophora. A subphylum of the Protozoa. The ciliates are a fairly homogeneous group of highly differentiated, unicellular organisms. Over 5000 species have been described, and many more surely exist but remain to be discovered. Typically, ciliates are larger than most other protozoans, ranging from 10 to 3000 micrometers (about 1/2500 to 1/8 in.).
3. Relating to certain structures of the eyeball (for example, ciliary body, ciliary muscle, ciliary process, anterior ciliary vein). See also: cilium. 4. Relating to the cilia of the pseudostratified columnar cells of the respiratory tract from the nose to the alveoli. Their synchronized beating moves the blanket of mucus overlying the respiratory epithelium. see mucociliary clearance.