Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
amœbic .
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- adjective Of, or pertaining to, an
amoeba .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or resembling amoebae
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Examples
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Then there's amebic dysentery, which can easily kill a man inside of 10 days.
Barry Toll 2010
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She concentrated her research on the study of amebic dysentery as an instructor in bacteriology and parasitology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine from 1926 to 1929.
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Over the next decade, she published extensively on amebic dysentery.
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It brought with it the only known large-scale epidemic of amebic dysentery in a civilian population until that time.
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I was encountering third world diseases in a first world hospital — I saw typhoid fever, amebic liver abscesses, brucellosis, and many acute illnesses in young people — not what most internists see in American hospitals.
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During her investigative work on the epidemic, she lunched on hard-boiled eggs and boiled water, and did not contract amebic dysentery, as did many coworkers.
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I had amebic dysentery and the allergic reaction to the food.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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Paul Walton, the geologist, had come down with amebic dysentery while negotiating in Saudi Arabia in 1948.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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In the 1950s, Dr. Albert Schweitzer used garlic to treat cholera, typhus, and amebic dysentery while working as a missionary in Africa.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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It is still an extremely popular herb in China, and is used to treat amebic dysentery, yeast infections, and middle-ear infections.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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