Blood platelets possess the power of ameboid movement. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 2. The Blood] Reference
The cells which it encloses are possessed of ameboid movement. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference
They embrace and enfold the pathogenic germs with which they come in contact by what is known as an ameboid force. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
It is well known that the moment the leucocytes are submitted to an alcoholic solution, their ameboid movements cease, and their function is arrested. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
If this view be true, it is a matter of great interest, and, as Schäfer has shown, harmonizes the contraction of muscle with the ameboid action of protoplasm. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles] Reference
Whether the cell in an inflamed part is the white ameboid cell of the blood or the fixed connective tissue embedded in the fibers, it multiplies in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Large rounded cells, termed splenic cells, are also seen; these are capable of ameboid movement, and often contain pigment and red-blood corpuscles in their interior. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen] Reference
What can they do but declare victory and ooze away with their one-celled "ameboid movement" after unintentionally dispensing with the nation they themselves deemed "indispendable?". From Wordnik.com. [Watching the Watchers] Reference
By means of these ameboid properties the cells have the power of wandering or emigrating from the bloodvessels by penetrating their walls and thus finding their way into the extravascular spaces. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 2. The Blood] Reference
In an ameboid cell, there is a framework of spongioplasm, which stains with hematoxylin and similar reagents, enclosing in its meshes a clear substance, hyaloplasm, which will not stain with these reagents. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles] Reference
These marrow cells proper, or myelocytes, resemble in appearance lymphoid corpuscles, and like them are ameboid; they generally have a hyaline protoplasm, though some show granules either oxyphil or basophil in reaction. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 2. Bone] Reference
Leucocytes are defined to be "minute, nucleated, colorless masses of protoplasm, capable of ameboid movements, found swimming freely in blood and lymph, in the reticulum of lymphatic glands, and in bone-marrow and other connective tissue.". From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
But that wasn't what did it -- it was when he finished his concoction and proudly held the drink up to the camera, and then, as he pointed at the swirly ameboid forms in the drink, he beamed and said, "It's like an Eagles concert in a glass!". From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
In health the blood passes through these capillaries with a regular current, the red cells or corpuscles floating rapidly in the fluid in the center of the channel, while the white or ameboid cells are attracted to the walls of the vessels and move very slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
(1) The most numerous (60 per cent.) and important are irregular in shape, possessed of the power of ameboid movement, and are characterized by nuclei which often consist of two or three parts (multipartite) connected together by fine threads of chromatin. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 2. The Blood] Reference
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