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Definition of Proteus

Proteus
Proteus Pro"te*us, n. [L., Gr. ?.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak. (b) A changeable protozoan; an am[oe]ba.

Meaning of Proteus from wikipedia

- symbols. In Gr**** mythology, Proteus (/ˈproʊtiəs, ˈproʊt.juːs/ PROH-tee-əs, PROHT-yooss; Ancient Gr****: Πρωτεύς, romanized: Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea...
- Patients with Proteus syndrome tend to have an increased risk of embryonic tumor development. The clinical and radiographic symptoms of Proteus syndrome are...
- activity. P. mirabilis causes 90% of all Proteus infections in humans. It is widely distributed in soil and water. Proteus mirabilis can migrate across the surface...
- The olm (German: [ɔlm] ) or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander which is the only species in the genus Proteus of the family Proteidae and...
- Look up Proteus or protean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proteus is an early Gr**** water god. Proteus may also refer to: Charles Proteus Steinmetz...
- active life, with Proteus berthed alongside the Imperial War Museum's preserved Town-class light cruiser, HMS Belfast. RFA Proteus and HMS Belfast from...
- Bluebird-Proteus CN7. After the merger of Bristol with Armstrong Siddeley the engine became the Bristol Siddeley Proteus, and later the Rolls-Royce Proteus. The...
- infections, often nosocomial. The term Proteus signifies changeability of form, as personified in the Homeric poems in Proteus, "the old man of the sea", who...
- Discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Gr**** mythology. Proteus orbits Neptune in a nearly equatorial orbit...
- referred to it as Proteus diffluens in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name Amoeba proteus to describe Rösel's Proteus, Proteus diffluens, and...