0 related to or similar to an amoeba (= a simple organism consisting of only one cell):
Her mother was seriously ill after contracting amoebic dysentery.
One researcher thought bees might be dying from an amoebic infection.
1 relating to or caused by amoebas:
amoebic dysentery
Amoebic meningitis is a very rare disease.
The doctor ruled out an amoebic infection but she wants to do some more tests.
The fission model suggests the moon was once part of the earth and split away like a reproducing amoebic cell.
This group of abstract artists used both amoebic and hard-edged geometric shapes.
This potential gene will now be expressed in legionella hosts to test its effect in the amoebic co-culture model.
But at every point, even at the amoebic stage, there is one or more integrated material system.
The bacterial flora of the intestine plays an important role in amoebic virulence.
The detection of lectin antigen is replacing light microscopy (which is insensitive and nonspecific) as the initial test method for diagnosing amoebic colitis.
