Crossword-Solution: PLASMODIUM
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| Plasmodium | n. | A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion. |
| Plasmodium | n. | A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLASMODIUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DECAYING organic matter, growth living on | 1 answer |
| MULTINUCLEATE motile mass of protoplam | 1 answer |
| PARASITE causing malaria | 1 answer |
| PLANT body growth of a slime-mould | 1 answer |
| RETICULE mass of protoplasm having no firm wall (of plant) | 1 answer |
| a naked mass of protoplasm with many nuclei, as in myxomycetes | 1 answer |
| plant body | 2 answers |
| Parasite | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMZEA
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eruption
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Sentences with PLASMODIUM (5)
The chemical basis of plasmodium is almost entirely composed of complex albuminous substances, and correlated with this structureless body are other compounds derived from them.
The algæ are a stage higher in the evolutionary scale than the undifferentiated noncellular plasmodium.
This firm, outer membrane of the _Protococcus_ accompanies a higher differentiation of tissue and localization of function than is found in the plasmodium.
The plasmodium, as the mass of protoplasm is called, may be made to creep upon a slide in the following way: A tumbler is filled with water and placed in a saucer filled with sand.
But here will challenge some twentieth-century _Gradgrind_: "This is all very pretty from the point of view of abstract science, but what is the practical value of it? The discovery of the plasmodium and its peculiarities has merely shown us the how and the why of a fact that we had known well and utilized for centuries, namely, that quinine will cure malaria." Just listen to what follows.
Quotes with PLASMODIUM (1)
Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have bee…