It is spread from person to person by the bite of the tsetse fly, which carries the protozoon and is famous for that reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Let us begin our comparative study with an example of the simplest animals that consist of only a single cell, such as the little protozoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
The malarial haematozoon is a protozoon, a very small protozoon since it lives and develops in the red blood cells which in man have a diameter of only 7 microns. From Wordnik.com. [Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture] Reference
To it energy is available which is denied to the protozoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
You put the difficulty of the first modification of the first protozoon admirably. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Now, if so, how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon or even from a tadpole-like fish?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
I dissent quite from what you say of the myriads of years it would take to people the world with such imagined protozoon. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
For it is to this phenomenon -- that of cell division -- that the continued life of the protozoon is to be ascribed, as we have already seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
The living being -- protozoon or vertebrate, notwithstanding its differentiation of material parts and manifoldness of structure, is truly one. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance, and we can have no security that the impartial outsider would agree with the philosopher's self-complacent assumption. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
A remarkable fact in this history is that the actual parasitic germ which causes typhus, whether a bacterium (Schizophyte) or a protozoon, has not been detected, although the louse has been shown to be its. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
This evolution of matter from the protozoon to man, announced from university chairs as the result of science, was eagerly taken up by the social democrats, and became the fundamental tenet of their conception of the world and of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
In no case will any organic being tend to retrograde, unless such retrogradation be an advantage to its varying offspring; and it is difficult to see how going back to the structure of the unknown supposed original protozoon could ever be an advantage. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Had anyone, instead, limited himself to reasoning thus: the original form of the malarial insect is a protozoon; it reproduces itself by scission, under our eyes; when the scission is finished, we see two diverse cells; one a half-moon, the other threadlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
Now, if so, "how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon, or even from a tadpole-like fish?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Bazarov’s experiments and once even placed his perfumed face, washed with the finest soap, over the microscope, in order to see how a transparent protozoon swallowed a green speck and busily chewed it with two very adroit organs which were in its throat. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers and Sons] Reference
Entamoeba histolytica; a protozoon. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
"Ich occurs world-wide and is one of the most common protozoon pathogens of freshwater fish. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
I gazed on this brief transfiguration with a disturbance which was partly soothed by the feeling that I myself was unknown to these Immortals; the Duchess had indeed seen me once with her husband, but could surely have kept no memory of that, and it gave me no pain that she found herself, owing to the place that she occupied in the box, in a position to gaze down upon the nameless, collective madrepores of the public in the stalls, for I had the happy sense that my own personality had been dissolved in theirs, when, at the moment in which, by the force of certain optical laws, there must, I suppose, have come to paint itself on the impassive current of those blue eyes the blurred outline of the protozoon, devoid of any individual existence, which was myself, I saw a ray illumine them; the. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
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