Pseudopodium

A temporary and constantly changing extension of the body of an ameba or an ameboid cell. Pseudopodia engulf bacteria and other particles as food and are responsible for the movements of the cell.


A temporary protruding process of a protozoan or ameboid cell, such as a leukocyte, into which the cell flows, for locomotion and the engulfing of food particles or foreign substances, as in phagocytosis.


 


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