So was his wife, Cilia Flores, whom Chavez named as Venezuela's attorney general last year.

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Attorney General Cilia Flores said that his oath can be taken at a later date.

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Attorney-General Cilia Flores said on Sunday that Mr Chavez could be sworn in at a later date.

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During this period, Mr Maduro also met Cilia Flores, his future wife, who was on Mr Chavez's defence team.

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The Venezuelan delegation also included Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez and Attorney-General Cilia Flores.

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Researchers hope their findings will lead to treatments for diseased cilia, which can cause blindness, deafness and kidney disease in people.

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This was able to restore the cilia and a sense of smell.

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The mice had a genetic disease which affected microscopic hairs in their body - called cilia - which can detect chemicals in the air.

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Fluid in the hoops swishes this way and that, moving hair-like cilia on special cells that trigger nerves that send signals to your brain.

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Microscopic cilia stick out from many cells in the body.

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Once the pair of gametes connect, they become a larva that drifts and swims in the tidal current, propelling itself by means of a little organ ringed with cilia called a velium.

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Each is lined with tissue called the mucosa, which secretes mucus continuously along hairy cells called cilia and out a tiny passageway called an ostium, through which the mucus drains into the nasal cavity and down the back of the throat, where it is swallowed (unless you blow your nose).

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