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Definition of Amoebae
1. amoeba [n] - See also: amoeba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amoebae
Literary usage of Amoebae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"amoebae coli mitis, of about the same size and appearance as the ... He also
claims to have cultivated amoebae from dysenteric stools in straw-infusion, ..."
2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"All the men fed pathogenic amoebae were volunteers and each signed, ... The first
series of experiments was with cultural amoebae, in order to refute ..."
3. Transactions by Panama Pacific Dental Congress, Australasian Medical Congress (1907)
"(vide infra), and, further, that although digestion in amoebae is usually regarded
as occurring in vacuoles, some of them at least can exert a solvent ..."
4. Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation by Elie Metchnikoff (1893)
"... the amoebae and Infusoria—Lesions of Vaucheria—Epidemic disease of amoebae,
... Two new amoebae are thus produced ; the one which encloses the nucleus ..."
5. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"... showed that this variety of dysentery can be distinguished from other forms,
not only by the presence of amoebae, but also by its pathological anatomy. ..."
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