PLASMA
\plˈazmə], \plˈazmə], \p_l_ˈa_z_m_ə]\
Definitions of PLASMA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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(physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"
By Princeton University
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The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
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Unorganized material; elementary matter.
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A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
By Oddity Software
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The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
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Unorganized material; elementary matter.
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A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
By Noah Webster.
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The colorless watery part of the blood in which the red corpuscles fioat; a grass-green stone used in jewelry. Also, plasm.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The fluid portion of the circulating blood, distinguished from the serum obtained after coagulation 2. The fluid portion of the lymph. 3. Protoplasm. 4. Glycerite of starch, glyceritum amyli, used as an excipient for ointments.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A variety of quartz or chalcedony; elementary matter, specially that out of which organized tissues develop; also the fluid in which the red particles of the blood are suspended.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The colourless fluid part of the blood in which the corpuscles float; a faintly translucent chalcedony on which many ancient gems are engraved, of a grass-green or leek-green colour, sprinkled with yellow and whitish specks.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The "liquid tissue" of body fluids through which leucocytes and corpuscles are disseminated; protoplasm generally.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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