| amebean | <zoology> See Ambean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| amebiasis | Infection with any of various amebae. It is an asymptomatic carrier state in most individuals, but diseases ranging from chronic, mild diarrhoea to fulminant dysentery may occur. (12 Dec 1998) |
| amebicides | Agents which are destructive to amebae, especially the parasitic species causing amebiasis in man and animal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| amebocyte | 1. A wandering cell found in invertebrates. 2. Obsolete term for leukocyte. 3. An in vitro tissue culture leukocyte. Origin: amoeba, + kytos, cell (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboid | 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) |
| ameboid cell | A cell such as a leukocyte, having ameboid movements, with a power of locomotion. Synonym: wandering cell. Synonym: migratory cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboid movement | The movement characteristic of leukocytes and protozoan organisms of the superclass Rhizopoda. See: streaming movement, filopodium, lobopodium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboididity | The power of locomotion after the manner of an ameboid cell. Synonym: amoebaism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboidism | 1. The performance of movements similar to those of an amoeba. Synonym: amoebaism. 2. Denoting a condition sometimes seen in certain nerve cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboma | A nodular, tumour-like focus of proliferative inflammation sometimes developing in chronic amoebiasis, especially in the wall of the colon. Synonym: amoebic granuloma. Origin: amoeba + G. -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| amebula | Term applied to the excysted young amoebas of Entamoeba species that emerge from the cyst in the human or vertebrate gut and their immediate progeny, usually totalling eight, prior to their localization in the large intestine. Origin: fr. G. Amoibe, a change, alteration (05 Mar 2000) |
| amebule | A minute amoeba. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameburia | The presence of amoebas in the urine. Origin: amoeba + G. Ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameiosis | <cell biology> A form of nuclear division which does not reduce the number of chromosomes because both of the nuclear divisions normally part of the process of meiosis have failed to occur. (09 Oct 1997) |
| amelanotic | Lacking in melanin. Origin: G. A-priv. + melas, black (05 Mar 2000) |