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The turning of living cells toward or away from a food source.  1, record 1, English, - sitotropism

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The single-celled animal most commonly studied by medical students is the paramecium, found in stagnant water.... Under the microscope these tiny animals are seen to possess the ability to respond to certain external stimuli such as light, heat, food, etc. These responses to stimuli are called tropisms, from the Greek word tropein, meaning to turn. Response to chemical action is called chemotropism; to light, heliotropism; to heat, thermotropism; to food, sitotropism; to electricity, electropism or galvanotropism; to touch, thigmotropism; to oxygen, oxytropism; to gravity, geotropism.... By sitotropism, or response to food, a cell has power not only to be attracted by food but also to select the kind of food best suited to its need by what we call selective absorption.  2, record 1, English, - sitotropism

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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Tendance des cellules à être attirées ou repoussées par certains aliments nutritifs.  1, record 1, French, - sitotropisme

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Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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Osmoregulatory organelle of protozoa and sponges.  2, record 2, English, - contractile%20vacuole

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Freshwater sponges and protozoans, such as amoebas and Paramecium, possess water-pumping organelles called contractile vacuoles or water expulsion vesicles.  2, record 2, English, - contractile%20vacuole

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La vacuole pulsatile sert, avant tout, de pompe osmotique et rejette l'eau qui a été absorbée par le cytoplasme hypertonique ou celle qui a pénétré dans la cellule au moment de l'ingestion des proies [...]  3, record 2, French, - v%C3%A9sicule%20contractile

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The largest protozoan parasite of man being 50 to 100 u in length and 40 to 70 u in width.  1, record 3, English, - Balantidium%20coli

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It has been called Holophrya coli, Leukophrya coli, and Paramecium coli.  1, record 3, English, - Balantidium%20coli

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Protozoaire parasite de l'humain.  2, record 3, French, - Balantidium%20coli

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A genus of holotrichous ciliates having the body elongate and bluntly rounded at the anterior end and having an oblique funnel-shaped buccal groove on the oral surface with the mouth at the extremity.  1, record 4, English, - paramecium

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Une nuée de paramécies (Paramoecium), animalcules microscopiques vivant dans les eaux stagnantes.  2, record 4, French, - Paramecium

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Any of a genus(Paramecium) of one-celled elongated, slipper-shaped, protozoans moving by means of cilia and having a backward-curving oral groove that ends with the mouth.  2, record 5, English, - paramecium

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The plural form of paramecium is paramecia or parameciums.  3, record 5, English, - paramecium

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

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Grand protozoaire cilié holotriche, que l'on trouve en grande quantité dans les eaux croupies.  2, record 5, French, - param%C3%A9cie

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