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
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 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
By William R. Warner
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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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