Definition of Amoeboids. Meaning of Amoeboids. Synonyms of Amoeboids

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Definition of Amoeboids

Amoeboid
Amoebiform A*m[oe]"bi*form, Amoeboid A*m[oe]"boid, a. [Am[oe]ba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an am[oe]ba; am[oe]ba-shaped; changing in shape like an am[oe]ba. Am[oe]boid movement, movement produced, as in the am[oe]ba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Meaning of Amoeboids from wikipedia

- rounded at the ends and roughly tubular in cross-section. Cercozoan amoeboids, such as Euglypha and Gromia, have slender, thread-like (filose) pseudopods...
- Amoeboid movement is the most typical mode of locomotion in adherent eukaryotic cells. It is a crawling-like type of movement accomplished by protrusion...
- The collective–amoeboid transition (CMT) is a process by which collective multicellular groups dissociate into amoeboid single cells following the down-regulation...
- Amoeba is a genus of single-celled amoeboids in the family Amoebidae. The type species of the genus is Amoeba proteus, a common freshwater organism, widely...
- histolytica). Cells which make pseudopods are generally referred to as amoeboids. To move towards a target, the cell uses chemotaxis. It senses extracellular...
- Two types of migrating tumor cells, mesenchymal (fibroblast-like) and amoeboid, can be observed in various patterns of cancer cell invasion. This article...
- from the combination of "Sarcodina" (which is an older term used for amoeboids) and "Mastigophora" (which is an older term for flagellates). The characteristics...
- and common in soil Foraminiferaamoeboids with reticulose pseudopods, common as marine benthos Radiolariaamoeboids with axopods, common as marine plankton...
- Vahlkampfia is a genus of amoeboids in Heterolobosea. "Vahlkampfia" (HTML). NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information...
- such as ponds, lakes, rivers and hot springs. It is also found in an amoeboid or temporary flagellate stage in soil, poorly maintained muni****l water...