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Definition of Amebas
1. ameba [n] - See also: ameba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amebas
Literary usage of Amebas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1922)
"Transference of amebas is a function of the encysted form alone. Under no natural
circumstances, we believe, is amebiasis transferred through the agency of ..."
2. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
""amebas when present in water, soil and other places outside of the animal body
may almost certainly be secured in culture and by the methods described pure ..."
3. Vaccination and Its Relation to Animal Experimentation by Jay Frank Schamberg (1911)
"Again, it has been found that amebas are frequently present in the stools of persons
... This has led to the view that there are various kinds of amebas, ..."
4. Transactions of the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the by American Medical Association Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health, American Medical Association (1915)
"amebas are accidental invaders; they produce no pathogenic or other reaction in
the mouth ... amebas in the mouth have a beneficent action as scavengers ..."
5. A Text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"A plate is selected upon which the desired amebas are so widely ... All cultures
of amebas must contain some kind of cells upon which the amebas can feed. ..."
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