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a wormlike writhing movement, usually nonprogressive, resulting from local expansion and contraction of the body, seen in flagellates with thin pellicles and very plastic bodies, as in certain species of the order Euglenida and certain other protozoa.Medical dictionary. 2011.
euglenoid movement — [yo͞o glē′noid΄] n. the expansion and contraction of the cell body of various flagellates * * * … Universalium
euglenoid movement — [yo͞o glē′noid΄] n. the expansion and contraction of the cell body of various flagellates … English World dictionary
euglenoid movement — noun Date: 1940 writhing usually nonprogressive protoplasmic movement of plastic bodied euglenoid flagellates … New Collegiate Dictionary
euglenoid movement — noun : writhing usually nonprogressive protoplasmic movement characteristic of plastic bodied euglenoids but known to occur in other groups (as certain sporozoans) called also metabolic movement … Useful english dictionary
euglenoid — eu·gle·noid yü glē .nȯid, yü glə n any flagellate of the order Euglenida euglenoid adj * * * eu·gle·noid (u gleґnoid) pertaining to the order Euglenida; see also under movement … Medical dictionary
euglenoid — eu•gle•noid [[t]yuˈgli nɔɪd[/t]] also eu•gle•nid [[t] nɪd[/t]] adj. 1) mcr of, pertaining to, or resembling euglenas 2) pertaining to or designating the wormlike movement, produced by wavelike contractions, characteristic of euglenas 3) mcr a… … From formal English to slang
metabolic movement — noun : euglenoid movement … Useful english dictionary
Euglenida — Eu·gle·ni·da yü glē nəd ə n pl an order of protozoans of the subphylum Mastigophora comprising extremely varied flagellates that are typically green or colorless stigma bearing solitary organisms with one or two flagella emerging anteriorly from… … Medical dictionary
protist — protistan /proh tis teuhn/, adj., n. protistic, adj. /proh tist/, n. any of various one celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and… … Universalium
Magnetotactic bacteria — (or MTB) are a polyphyletic group of bacteria discovered by Richard P. Blakemore in 1975, that orient along the magnetic field lines of Earth s magnetic field. To perform this task, these bacteria have organelles called magnetosomes that contain… … Wikipedia
