cytoden.

1869 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 9 223 It is identical with the substance which as Plasma or Protoplasm forms the contractile living substance of all organic Plastides; of all cells and Cytodes of animals, Protista, and plants.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 845/2 If they [sc. red blood corpuscles] are merely clumps of specially modified protoplasm, budded off from the white corpuscles, then they are cytodes.

1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. vi. 130 Cytods: living, independent existences which consist merely of an atom of plasm.

1916 Amer. Naturalist 50 116 With the formation of the nucleus the cytode or pseudo-moneral stage has become a true cell of the simplest type.

1938 Bot. Rev. 4 89 The first group of observations pictures the cell of bacteria as devoid of any structure suggesting a nucleus. It is in conformity with Haeckel's dogma about the existence of cytodes.

1965 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 109 146/1 The Monera were cytodes and so, too, were all cells at the moment they underwent division.

2005 M. A. Di Gregorio From Here to Eternity i. vi. 211 table First stage: a naked cytode.

1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cytode,... Also applied to the lymph and lymphoid cells; called also Leucocytes.