Meanings of nonmotile in English

Four hundred and eighty-eight mutants had decreased levels of invasiveness; most were nonmotile.

Moreover, the flagella in mutant sperm are nonmotile.

This paper shows that D. geothermalis has firm but laterally slippery attachment not reported before for a nonmotile species.

Finally, the nonmotile nature of the cells allows for the retrograde flow to be analyzed in the absence of cell translocation.

Primary cilia are nonmotile microtubule structures that assemble from basal bodies by a process called intraflagellar transport (IFT) and are associated with several human diseases.

By electron microscopy, many of the cells were seen to possess nonmotile cilia, with a 9 + 0 pattern of microtubule doublets.