sarcode

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ode, coined by Félix Dujardin, French biologist and cytologist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː(ɹ)kəʊd/

Noun

sarcode (countable and uncountable, plural sarcodes)

1. (homeopathy) A remedy made from healthy living tissue.
2. (archaic, biology) Synonym of protoplasm
   • 1866, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 215–216:

     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 known to be sensitive to light, it does not seem impossible that certain elements in their tissues or sarcode should have become aggregated and developed into nerves endowed with this special sensibility to its action.

   • 1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, volume 39, page 252:

     The amoeba — a mere shapeless mass of moving sarcode — digests rapidly and constantly without a trace of organism! An organism when dead we assume to be chemically the same as the living organism, but we cannot prove it.

See also

• (homeopathic remedy): nosode

Anagrams

• Oscared, sadcore