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For example, paramecia and amoebas, which are protists that lack cell walls, have contractile vacuoles.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Roskin proceeded to test the serum of cancerous rabbits, then of human patients, found to his delight that when properly prepared, it was highly toxic to paramecia.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put sensitive paramecia into a solution of mashed killer paramecia.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the boiling water the frankfurters swished and lashed like artificially colored and magnified paramecia.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole