(n.) An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.
(n.) A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.
Protean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(2) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(3) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(4) The symptoms are protean from unilateral headache, Horners syndrome, tinnitus, to cerebral ischemia and hemipareses.
(5) The protean clinical manifestation depends on the site and the extent of the disease and its complications.
(6) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) Congenital intrapericardial aneurysm of the left atrial wall is a rare anomaly with protean manifestations.
(9) It was important for the physician to have a high index of suspicion based on a protean chief complaint, a lack of preceding history of illness, the time of presentation to the ED, and more subtle physical findings such as minor skin bruising, retinal hemorrhage, and distended abdomen.
(10) Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement.
(11) This adds another entity to the already protean manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection.
(12) The signs and symptoms of the syndrome are protean, and the underlying cancer is often occult.
(13) Widespread drug abuse, a comparatively recent medicosocial phenomenon, presents protean clinical patterns and challenging diagnostic problems daily that mimic classical medical syndromes.
(14) The infants all had multiple skin haemangiomas as well as deep-seated lesions in many different tissues that caused protean clinical manifestations and management problems.
(15) The latter has protean manifestations, but bouts of fever with low parasitaemia and blood disorders are predominant.
(16) Only the subsequent course of the tumor enabled us to identify the site in the sphenoid sinus, an atypical area surrounded by numerous neurovascular structures which, if involved, may give rise to a protean and nonspecific symptom-complex.
(17) While qualitatively normal, these precursors accumulate to cause protean signs and symptoms.
(18) Symptomatology was protean, clinical findings minimal, relapses frequent, and results of laboratory investigations, including virological studies, were generally negative.
(19) Both clinicians and pathologists must be aware of the protean manifestations of AIDS in order to establish an accurate and complete diagnosis.
(20) Although the hallmark of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is pneumonia, the organism is also responsible for a protean array of other symptoms.