ameba

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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

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

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

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2014

They want a microvivarium to show how ameba and other one-cell animals live.

From Time Magazine Archive

An ameba, contracting at the touch of some unpleasant object, feels fear in its most primitive form.

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