amoeboid
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- amoeboidism noun
Example Sentences
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Crucially, the new study discovered amoeboid cells in pancreatic cancer produce high levels of a molecule called CD73, which drives their ability to spread and weaken the immune system.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
The amoeboid cells were present in both late and early-stage pancreatic cancer.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
The ur-slime was Urschleim: the original mucus, an amoeboid living ooze, dredged up from the bottom of the North Atlantic by the steamship Porcupine in 1868.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
A macrophage is an irregularly shaped phagocyte that is amoeboid in nature and is the most versatile of the phagocytes in the body.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It had the general appearance of a large tortoise without a shell, its body an amoeboid puddle beneath a long neck.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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