ameboid

Or a·moe·boid

[uh-mee-boid]

adjective

Biology.

1. resembling or related to amebas.

Other Word Forms

• ameboidism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ameboid¹

ameb(a) + -oid

Example Sentences

It is well known that the moment the leucocytes are submitted to an alcoholic solution, their ameboid movements cease, and their function is arrested.

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Whether the cell in an inflamed part is the white ameboid cell of the blood or the fixed connective tissue embedded in the fibers, it multiplies in the same way.

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Leucocytes are defined to be “minute, nucleated, colorless masses of protoplasm, capable of ameboid movements, found swimming freely in blood and lymph, in the reticulum of lymphatic glands, and in bone-marrow and other connective tissue.”

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They embrace and enfold the pathogenic germs with which they come in contact by what is known as an ameboid force.

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