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pseudopod
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pseu·do·pod (sd-pd)
n.
A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells or of certain unicellular organisms, especially amoebas, that serves in locomotion and phagocytosis.
pseudopod
[so̅o̅′dəpod]
Etymology: Gk, pseudes, false, pous, foot
a temporary cytoplasmic process of an ameba that can be extended to propel the organism or to engulf food. Also called pseudopodium.


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Ingestion, or endocytosis, of microorganisms by eastern oyster amebocytes reportedly can occur in three ways; some microbes adhere to the amebocyte filopodia (Bang 1961), some are taken into funnel shaped psuedopods (Renwrantz et al.
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