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ameboid

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ameboid /ame·boid/ (ah-me´boid) resembling an ameba in form or movement.
a·me·boid or a·moe·boid (-mboid)
adj.
1. Of or resembling an ameba, especially in changeability of form and means of locomotion.
2. Having an irregular or asymmetric outline with peripheral projections, as the outline of a group of cells growing in a nutrient culture.
ameboid [ah-me´boid]
resembling an ameba.
ameboid
resembling an ameba.
ameboid
adjective Amoeba-like
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Notwithstanding an extensive literature on the subject, the question of the histogenesis of the inflammatory process and, especially, the origin of the phagocytic mononuclear ameboid wandering cells is not settled.
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In particular, the origin of the so-called phagocytic mononuclear ameboid wandering cell had not been definitively determined.
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