Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
-     See amœbic .
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- adjective   Of, or pertaining to, an amoeba .
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- adjective pertaining to or resembling amoebae
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Examples
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								Then there's amebic dysentery, which can easily kill a man inside of 10 days. Barry Toll 2010 
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								She concentrated her research on the study of amebic dysentery as an instructor in bacteriology and parasitology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine from 1926 to 1929. 
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								Over the next decade, she published extensively on amebic dysentery. 
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								It brought with it the only known large-scale epidemic of amebic dysentery in a civilian population until that time. 
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								I was encountering third world diseases in a first world hospital — I saw typhoid fever, amebic liver abscesses, brucellosis, and many acute illnesses in young people — not what most internists see in American hospitals. 
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								During her investigative work on the epidemic, she lunched on hard-boiled eggs and boiled water, and did not contract amebic dysentery, as did many coworkers. 
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								I had amebic dysentery and the allergic reaction to the food. Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002 
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								Paul Walton, the geologist, had come down with amebic dysentery while negotiating in Saudi Arabia in 1948. The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008 
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								In the 1950s, Dr. Albert Schweitzer used garlic to treat cholera, typhus, and amebic dysentery while working as a missionary in Africa. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008 
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								It is still an extremely popular herb in China, and is used to treat amebic dysentery, yeast infections, and middle-ear infections. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008 
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