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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), is a rare, ciliopathic, autosomal recessive genetic disorder that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the respiratory tract (lower and upper, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear), fallopian tube, and flagellum of sperm cells. The phrase 'immotile ciliary syndrome' is no longer favored as the cilia do have movement, but are merely inefficient or unsynchronized.

Respiratory epithelial motile cilia, which resemble microscopic 'hairs' (although structurally ...