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Elsewhere in the world, such as Karachi, the capital city of Pakistan, he says, the presence of the “brain eating amoeba” in the water supply seems to be much larger.
Brain-eating amoebae are very rare, but warming waters may change that | Kat Eschner | September 29, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThis free-living amoeba, Naegleria gruberi, is not confined to tropical countries….
50 years ago, scientists were on the trail of a brain-eating amoeba | Maria Temming | September 18, 2020 | Science NewsMercifully, human invasion is rare, for the invader, an amoeba, destroys the brain tissue and produces death in from four to seven days.
50 years ago, scientists were on the trail of a brain-eating amoeba | Maria Temming | September 18, 2020 | Science NewsTo pull themselves along, amoebas extend temporary bulges from their cells.
An amoeba called Naegleria fowleri causes disease in people by eating brain cells.
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on the alienlike amoeba that gives him nightmares.
This Amoeba Eats Your Brain: Naegleria Fowleri Rattles New Orleans | Kent Sepkowitz | September 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI was invited to see Paul when he performed at a very intimate gig at amoeba Records in L.A. a few years ago.
A mono-cell, the amoeba, was able to reproduce itself by the simple stratagem of sub-division.
And I have good reason to believe that the forces of Aptor are congealing once more, a sluggish but huge amoeba of horror.
The Jewels of Aptor | Samuel R. DelanyBut the right-hand side you will see an undoubted amoeba, moving sluggishly across the field.
The Poison Belt | Arthur Conan DoyleI expect you'll have to wait till little brother amoeba gets grown up before you'll find a reader.
The Poison Belt | Arthur Conan DoyleIt continued to move outward, and on the map it appeared like a pseudopod extruded by an enormous amoeba.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
British Dictionary definitions for amoeba
US ameba
/ (əˈmiːbə) /
any protozoan of the phylum Rhizopoda, esp any of the genus Amoeba, able to change shape because of the movements of cell processes (pseudopodia). They live in fresh water or soil or as parasites in man and animals
Origin of amoeba
1Derived forms of amoeba
- amoebic or US amebic, adjective
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Scientific definitions for amoeba
[ ə-mē′bə ]
Any of various one-celled aquatic or parasitic protozoans of the genus Amoeba or related genera, having no definite form and consisting of a mass of protoplasm containing one or more nuclei surrounded by a flexible outer membrane. Amoebas move by means of pseudopods.
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Cultural definitions for amoeba
[ (uh-mee-buh) ]
An animal composed of only one cell that has no fixed shape. It is the best known of the single-celled animals, or protozoa.
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