sarcode

English

Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) +‎ -ode

sarcode (countable and uncountable, plural sarcodes)

(homeopathy) A remedy made from healthy living tissue.
(archaic, biology) Synonym of protoplasm
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
  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.
- 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.

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