pseudo-, pseud-

1. A temporary protrusion of the protoplasm in certain one-celled organisms or in certain cells of some multicellular animals, used like a foot in locomotion or like a hand to grasp food.
2. Temporary footlike extensions of one-celled organisms; such as, amoebas, used for moving around and for surrounding and taking in food.

The plural form of pseudopodium or a temporary protrusion of the cytoplasm of an ameba or other motile simple cell, serving as locomotion (movement) or to engulf (consume) food.

A reference to a temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells; such as, phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, especially amoebas, that serves in locomotion (moving around) and phagocytosis (consuming food).

A temporary footlike extension of a one-celled organism, such as an amoeba, used for moving about and for surrounding and taking in food.

A temporary protrusion of an amebic cytoplasm used in locomotion and ingestion.

Accumulation and drooling of saliva due to dysphagia.

A condition characterized by the development of a varying number of the somatic and functional changes typical of puberty; commonly caused by the hormonal secretions of a tumor and typically arises before the chronological age of puberty; precocious pseudopuberty.

One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument (one of the outer layers of tissue) of certain Turbellaria (group of worms which have the body covered externally with vibrating cilia). They are filled with a soft granular substance.

An extensive, saccus-like (sac-like) separation in the wall of a spore resembling a saccus, but lacking the characteristic alveolate infrastructure.

1. An activity resembling science but based on false assumptions: Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual, but they are not in accordance with any scientific method.
2. A theory or method doubtfully, or mistakenly, held to be scientific.
3. A practice that is considered to be without scientific evidence.

1. A device that produces reversed stereoscopic effects, for example, by transposing the pictures of a stereoscope.
2. An instrument which, by means of prisms or mirrors, transposes to one eye the image seen normally by the other eye.

The sense of depth is reversed and peaks are seen as troughs and vice versa.

Reversed depth perception, as seen with a stereoscope which transposes the images seen by two eyes.

Pseudoscorpions are tiny scorpion-like arthropods, with a flat, pear-shaped body with two sections, eight five-segmented legs, and simple eyes.

The color of the body can be yellowish-tan to dark-brown, with the paired claws often a contrasting color. They have two very long pedipalps, or pincers, which strongly resemble the scorpion's claws, but the pseudoscorpion's abdomen is short and rounded at the rear, rather than extending into a segmented tail and sting.

The movable part of the pincer contains a venom gland and duct; the poison is used to capture and immobilize their tiny prey. They do not bite.

To digest prey, they pour a mildly corrosive fluid over the prey, then ingest the liquefied remains.

They spin silk from a gland in their jaws to make disk-shaped cocoons for mating, molting, or enduring cold weather.