sarcode
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + -ode
Noun
sarcode (countable and uncountable, plural sarcodes)
- (homeopathy) A remedy made from healthy living tissue.
- (archaic, biology) Synonym of protoplasm
- 1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review (volume 39, page 252)
- The amoeba — a mere shapeless mass of moving sarcode — digests rapidly and constantly without a trace of organism! An organism when dead we assume to be chemically the same as the living organism, but we cannot prove it.
- 1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review (volume 39, page 252)
See also
- (homeopathic remedy): nosode
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