Amoeba Princeps, a minute particle of jelly-like substance, called sarcode -- scarcely larger than a small grain of sand -- and with no distinction of organs or limbs. ❋ Unknown (1854)
At the point of union (to facilitate which there is a hiatus in the margins of the peduncle) the sarcode or “flesh” of the coral is denuded, its place being occupied by ligaments, which by minute ramifications adhere so intimately to the coral stock or stem that severance therefrom cannot be effected without loss of life to the mollusc. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode. ❋ Various (N/A)
This condition tensified, the amoeboid action quickened as here depicted, the agility of motion ceased, the nucleus body became strongly developed, and the whole sarcode was in a state of vivid and glittering action. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged. ❋ Various (N/A)
At the same moment a motion is set up which pulls the divided pairs asunder, making the interval of sarcode to grow constantly greater between them. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then followed an amoeboid and uncertain form, with an increased intensity of action which lasted a few moments, when lassitude supervened, then perfect stillness of the body, which is now globular in form, while the flagellum feebly lashed, and then fell upon and fused with the substance of the sarcode. ❋ Various (N/A)
And, as it happened, a few years before Schwann published his cell-theory, Dujardin hinted at another degree of composition which was later to take its place between the cell and the chemical elements -- sarcode or protoplasm. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The fiber of sarcode, to which the constricted part has by tension been reduced, now snaps, and two organisms go free. ❋ Various (N/A)
The flagellum of the smaller one at length moved slower, then sluggishly, then fell upon the sarcode, which rapidly diminished, while the bigger form expanded and became vividly active until the two bodies had actually fused into one. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the course of a few seconds there is no disconnected sarcode visible, and in five to seven minutes the organism is ❋ Various (N/A)
Meanwhile, the diffluence causes a spreading and flattening of the sarcode and swimming gives place to creeping, while the flagella violently lash. ❋ Various (N/A)
Now the sarcode was, as it were, kneading its own substance, and again an inner whirling motion was visible, reminding one of the rush of water round the interior of a hollow sphere on its way to a jet or fountain. ❋ Various (N/A)
A speck of protogenal jelly or sarcode, if alive, shows analogous relations to certain substances; but the soft yielding tissue allows the part next the attractive matter to move thereto, and then, by retraction, to draw such matter into the sarcodal mass, which overspreads, dissolves, and assimilates it. ❋ Various (1909)
How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility. ❋ Unknown (1909)
From protozoa or protista to plants and animals the graduation is closer than from magnetised iron to vitalised sarcode. ❋ Various (1909)
Presently it came to be known, through the labors of Kölliker, Nägeli, Bischoff, and various others, that there are numerous lower forms of animal life which seem to be composed of this sarcode, without any cell wall whatever. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Particularly in the case of cells that change their shape markedly, moving about in consequence of the streaming of their sarcode, did it seem certain that no cell wall is present, or that, if present, its rôle must be insignificant. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Cellulose and animal membrane being now regarded as more by-products, the way was clear for the recognition of the fact that vegetable protoplasm and animal sarcode are marvellously similar in appearance and general properties. ❋ Unknown (1904)
A somewhat different view has been advanced by other physiologists -- namely that the protoplasm, when irritated, contracts like the soft sarcode of the muscles of animals. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
