a. Biol. [f. as prec. + -OID.] Of the nature of a cell; cell-like. Also sb.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 17, note. No morphological unit, nor even any cell-like or ‘cytoid’ body, can have been at work. Ibid., 18. Chauveau’s experiments … shew that in the absence, if not of certain animal cells, still of certain animal ‘cytoids’ or ‘leucocytes,’ the vaccine poison is inoperative.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Cytoid corpuscles, Henle’s term for Leucocytes.
