Definition of Endamoeba histolytica

1. Noun. The parasitic ameba that causes amebic dysentery in human beings.

Group relationships: Endamoeba, Genus Endamoeba
Generic synonyms: Endameba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endamoeba Histolytica

Encelia farinosa
Enceliopsis
Enceliopsis nudicaulis
Encephalartos caffer
Encephalitozoon hellum
Encratite
Encratites
Encyclia
Encyclia citrina
Encyclia tampensis
Encyclia venosa
End of Cycle
End of Cycles
Endamoeba
Endamoeba histolytica (current term)
Endamoebidae
Endecott
Enderby Land
Endicott
Endo
Endo's fuchsin agar
Endo's medium
Endo agar
Endodermophyton
Endodontidae
Endoeuropean
Endomyces geotrichum
Endoprocta
Endothia aspartic proteinase

Literary usage of Endamoeba histolytica

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.) (1922)
"Endamoeba histolytica was found in the stools. He was given emetin treatments for five days and sent home with advice as to treatment of diarrhea. ..."

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. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"... given rise to Endamoeba histolytica, which is an obligate parasite and the cause of tropical dysentery in man. E. histolytica, though manifesting a ..."

4. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"Liver abscess is a common result of infection with Endamoeba histolytica. Often these abscesses are of large size, filled with a slimy and somewhat bloody ..."

5. Clinical Diagnosis: A Manual of Laboratory Methods by James Campbell Todd (1918)
"Endamoeba histolytica. —This organism is found, often in large numbers, in the stools of tropical dysentery and in the pus and walls of hepatic abscesses ..."

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