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Definition of Endamoeba

1. Noun. The type genus of the family Endamoebidae.

Definition of Endamoeba

1. [n -BAE or -BAS]

Medical Definition of Endamoeba

1. A genus of amoebae parasitic in invertebrates; originally described from cockroaches. Origin: endo-+ G. Amoibe, change (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endamoeba

Literary usage of Endamoeba

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"There have been 284 patients from northern States in whom we have reported Endamoeba coli, the supposedly non-pathogenic organism, and 535 patients from the ..."

2. Collected Papers (1922)
"In connection with some experiments to determine the thermal- death point of the human intestinal protozoan cysts of Endamoeba histolytica, Endamoeba coli, ..."

3. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"The third paper was by MW LYON, JR., Endamoeba gingivalis and pyorrhea. ... He called attention to the pathologic lesions produced by the Endamoeba and by ..."

4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"You get a full account of the Endamoeba buccalis, the history of disease, ... You get the action of emetin upon the Endamoeba, you get the exact dosage, ..."

5. Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the by United States Public Health Service (1915)
"... parasitic amebae and with Strongyloides stercoralis sulphur was tried on hookworm disease, but it proved an absolute failure. i See p. 92. Endamoeba ..."

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