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Plasm

//ˈplæzəm// noun

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Noun

1
Protoplasm. archaic, countable, uncountable
""And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity."
2
the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended wordnet
3
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. countable, uncountable
"A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance."
4
the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes wordnet
5
A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such a layer. countable, uncountable
"1990, Robert Wall, This Side Up: Spatial Determination in the Early Development of Animals, Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback, page 96, The last chapter showed severe limitations in the concept of 'mosaic' development as it applies to spiralian embryos. It did, however, demonstrate differential segregations occurring at cleavage there, and seen for visibly distinct plasms, some macromolecules and determinants inferred from experimental studies."

Etymology

From Late Latin plasma (“mold”) or Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”), in some cases via German Plasma or French plasme, like English plasma.

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