ameba

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City officials said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the ameba in water samples from the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad on Friday.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

People are infected when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose, usually when people go swimming or diving in lakes and rivers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Partially inflated at the Roswell, N.M., launch site, it looks like an ameba dressed in haute couture.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2014

On the other hand, the bacillus does less damage than the ameba, and yields to treatment more readily.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the first clever bit of colloidal ooze, protoplasm as the ameba, protruded a bit of itself as a pseudopod, it achieved a new freedom.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.