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Definition of Amoebocytes
1. amoebocyte [n] - See also: amoebocyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amoebocytes
Literary usage of Amoebocytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"In the interstices of the network of fibres a semi-fluid substance (the unaltered
jelly) is found, and this is traversed by free, wandering amoebocytes. ..."
2. Report on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries at the University of Liverpool, and by University of Liverpool, Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, University of Liverpool Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory (1907)
"There are two principal kinds of amoebocytes:—(1) Semi-transparent cells, which
are amoeboid and have finely granular protoplasm. ..."
3. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"This fluid has suspended it in numerous amoebocytes (•». p. 92), and these
corpuscles act as scavengers, taking up into themselves any foreign bodies, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"Cuenot (1901) distinguished (i) amoebocytes, floating cells in the ... such products
and amoebocytes loaded with them become caught in these organs, ..."
5. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The amoebocytes are formed in specialised glandular regions of both haemal and
... From them are developed connective and muscular fibres, amoebocytes and ..."
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