sarcode

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, flesh) + -ode

Noun

sarcode (countable and uncountable, plural sarcodes)

  1. (homeopathy) A remedy made from healthy living tissue.
  2. (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.

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