amœbocyte Zool.
(əˈmiːbəsaɪt)
[Fr. (L. Cuénot, 1888), f. amœba + -o + -cyte.]
A cell having amœboid shape or properties; esp. a type of corpuscle in the cœlomic fluid of certain echinoderms, etc.
| 1892 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXXIII. 111 Cuénot..advances a theory that certain granules contained in ‘amibocytes’ [sic] consist of an ‘albuminogenous’ ferment. 1900 F. A. Bather et al. in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. iii. 22 In it float various bodies..amoebocytes..capable of wandering through all the tissues..and containing refringent granules, proteids, [etc.]. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 727/1 Amoebocytes..are amoeboid cells closely resembling the leucocytes or white blood corpuscles of higher animals. 1951 New Biol. X. 9 The wandering cells of the blood..are often called amoebocytes. |