Definition of Amebic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae. "Amoebic dysentery"

Exact synonyms: Ameban, Amebous, Amoeban, Amoebic, Amoebous
Derivative terms: Ameba, Ameba, Ameba, Amoeba, Amoeba, Amoeba
Partainyms: Amoeba, Amoeba, Amoeba, Amoeba, Amoeba, Amoeba

Definition of Amebic

1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, an amoeba. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amebic

1. ameba [adj] - See also: ameba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amebic

ambystomid salamander
amcinonide
amdinocillin
amdinocillin pivoxil
amdoxovir
amdram
amearst
ameba
amebae
amebalike
ameban
amebas
amebean
amebiases
amebiasis
amebic (current term)
amebic dysentery
amebicidal
amebicide
amebicides
amebiform
amebiosis
amebocyte
amebocytes
ameboid
ameboid cell
ameboid movement
ameboididity
ameboidism
ameboma

Literary usage of Amebic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"It will, without doubt, cure the amebic infection found associated with pyorrhea but ... Peripheral Neuritis following Emetin Treatment of amebic Dysentery. ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Emetin, one of the alkaloids of ipecac, is quite as specific for amebic ... The prevention of amebic dysentery consists in a search for and control of ..."

3. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Inspired by this work we sought to verify the effects of adrenalin in the treatment of amebic dysentery, a disease observed amongst us for many years, ..."

4. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"amebic DYSENTERY (Synonym. ... In Manila, Strong states that out of 1328 cases in the United States army, 561 were of the amebic type. ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Continuous propagation of amebic dysentery in animals. ... The behavior of amebic dysentery in lower animal* and its bearing upon the interpretation of the ..."

6. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"amebic Dysentery (amebic Colitis).—amebic dysentery is not, strictly speaking, a disease of infancy and childhood. ..."

7. The Treatment of Acute Infectious Diseases by Frank Sherman Meara (1921)
"It is an acute infectious process which, on etiological grounds, can be divided into two diseases: (1) amebic dysentery, due to the invasion of the mucous ..."

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