Besides the ameboidindividuals which pass through the asexual cycle, there are present with them in the blood many individuals with sexual properties.
When at rest, its shape is spheric; but upon a warm slide it exhibits the characteristic ameboid motion, {245} constantly changing its shape or moving slowly about.
This body exhibits ameboid movement and increases in size.
These varieties may be divided into two general classes: (a) Those having active independent ameboid motion.
They are very resistent to quinin and often persist in the blood long after the ameboidforms have been destroyed, but are probably incapable of continuing the disease until they have passed through the cycle in the mosquito.
The known mechanisms for this in the body are ameboid cells, especially the phagocytes.
Plant cells never surround and engulf particles of solid food and digest them within the cell as many single-celled animals do, and as the leukocytes and similar ameboid cells in practically all multicelled animals do.
There can be no doubt that the emigration is due to the ameboid motion of the cell, and the discovery of the phenomenon, to which is given the name chemotaxis, affords a sufficient explanation.
This tendency of the white cells to separate from the others, even when the current is rapid, is partly due to their viscosity and power of ameboid movement, but in the main is a purely mechanical effect of the slower current.
When the blood current becomes sufficiently slow to enable them to cling to the walls of the vessels, it is then that ameboid movement begins.
They embrace and enfold the pathogenic germs with which they come in contact by what is known as an ameboid force.
It is well known that the moment the leucocytes are submitted to an alcoholic solution, their ameboid movements cease, and their function is arrested.
Whether the cell in an inflamed part is the white ameboid cell of the blood or the fixed connective tissue embedded in the fibers, it multiplies in the same way.
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