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
The bacillus strikes the bowels more quickly and feverishly than does the ameba.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the case of a close relative of the ameba, the one-celled animal known as the paramecium, union with another paramecium, true conjugation, has been proved necessary to prevent death sooner or later.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
Most people do not think of microscopic bacteria as plants, any more than they think of amebae, clams and sponges as "animals."
From Time Magazine Archive
For the white cells, which move about like amebae, are the body's shock troops; they gobble up invading bacteria, produce antidotes which neutralize their toxins.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates.
From Time Magazine Archive
These cells are like little amebas in the blood.
From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton
A streak of terrible light was striking at them from the Interplanetarian, blinding white light, and along that highway of light swarmed a horde of little green figures, like squirming green amebas.
From Empire by Clifford D. Simak
With a grunt of amazement, Greg slammed a beam straight into the heart of the amebas.
From Empire by Clifford D. Simak
