All of the contents of a cilium, excluding the plasma membrane surrounding the cilium. [ GOC:dos GOC:BHF http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17895364 GOC:cilia ]
Synonyms: cilium plasm
Term information
Note that we deem cilium and microtubule-based flagellum to be equivalent. Also, researchers consider the composition of both the plasm and the membrane of the cilium to be detectably different from that in the non-ciliary cytosol and plasma membrane (e.g. in terms of calcium ion concentration, membrane lipid composition, and more). For this reason, the term "ciliary plasm" is not linked to "cytoplasm".
ciliary cytoplasm
cilial cytoplasm
microtubule-based flagellum cytoplasm
cilium cytoplasm
microtubule-based flagellar cytoplasm