cytode Biol.
(ˈsaɪtəʊd)
[f. as cytoblastema with ending -ode1, repr. Gr. -ῳδης, -οειδης, -like, -form.]
1. A microscopic non-nucleated unicellular mass of protoplasm, the lowest form in which life is exhibited. (A term proposed by Haeckel in 1866.)
| 1879 tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man I. vi. 130 Cytods: living, independent existences which consist merely of an atom of plasm. 1882 Gilburt in Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club Ser. ii. No. 1. 21 A cell is a little mass of protoplasm, inside which lies a nucleus; while a cytode is a little mass of protoplasm without a nucleus. |
2. ‘Also applied to the lymph and lymphoid cells; called also Leucocytes’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).