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Definition of Ameboid
1. Adjective. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).
Definition of Ameboid
1. Adjective. Resembling an amoebae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ameboid
1. ameba [adj] - See also: ameba
Medical Definition of Ameboid
1. 1. Resembling an amoeba in appearance or characteristics. 2. Of irregular outline with peripheral projections; denoting the outline of a form of colony in plate culture. Origin: amoeba + G. Eidos, appearance (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ameboid
Literary usage of Ameboid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"In human blood films fixed in the usual manner, the ameboid movement of leucocytes
and thrombocytes is lost. I have therefore endeavored to obtain a simple ..."
2. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"Gad/'2 in 1878, pointed out the resemblance to ameboid motion of the changes in
shape observed in drops of rancid oils in weak alkaline solution. ..."
3. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... must not be confounded with the actual ameboid motility which they exhibit in
disease. The molecular dancing movements of bits of fragmented corpuscles, ..."
4. Physical Chemistry of Vital Phenomena: For Students and Investigators in the by Jesse Francis McClendon (1917)
"... CELL DIVISION, FERTILIZATION AND PARTHENOGENESIS It was shown by Quincke that
movements of drops of fluid, resembling ameboid motion, could be produced ..."
5. Advanced Lessons in Practical Physiology for Students of Medicine by Russell Burton-Opitz (1920)
"LESSON I MUSCLE AND NERVE ameboid AND CILIARY MOTION. METHODS OF STIMULATION 1.
ameboid Motion.—Place a few drops of a hay infusion upon a glass slide. ..."
6. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1904)
"This body he describes as an ameboid cell, nucleated, one-fourth to one-half the
size of a red blood corpuscle, provided with pseudopodia, and often with ..."
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