Crossword-Solution: PLASMODIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plasmodia | pl. | of Plasmodium |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PLASMODIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| amoeboid masses of protoplasm, each containing many nuclei | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
EEMZCA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLASMODIA (5)
That which interested me in the matter was the apparent analogy of _Bathybius_ with other well-known forms of lower life, such as the plasmodia of the Myxomycetes and the Rhizopods.
When the germinating spores of the fungi, _myxomycetes_, rupture their walls and become masses of naked protoplasm, they are known as plasmodia.
Many cases are on record which had typical chills and fever, with abundance of plasmodia in the blood, years after leaving the tropics or other malarious districts; but there is often the possibility of a recent re-infection.
Laveran had found that in the blood of sufferers who recover spontaneously from malarial fever there are a great number of corpuscles which have no longer the rounded forms of the plasmodia, but are crescent-shaped and rayed.
But evidently Morel's theories of the degeneration of man had made a much livelier impression on his imagination; and his leap from these remote theories to his interpretation of the plasmodia seemed an achievement of "genius." It may be said that this "feat of genius," this visionary generalization, prevented Laveran from seeing the truth.