PROTOPLASM
\pɹˈə͡ʊtə͡ʊplˌazəm], \pɹˈəʊtəʊplˌazəm], \p_ɹ_ˈəʊ_t_əʊ_p_l_ˌa_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of PROTOPLASM
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- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 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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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
By Oddity Software
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The part of a cell that contains the CYTOSOL and small structures excluding the CELL NUCLEUS; MITOCHONDRIA; and large VACUOLES. (Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Living matter, the substance of which animal and vegetable tissues are formed. Undifferentiated protoplasm is a clear, viscid, colloidal fluid, of a specific gravity of about 1.250, resembling the white of egg, composed of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, and a number of other elements, in complex and unstable combination. It is subject to change, or differentiation, of the most varied sorts, forming epithelium, bone, muscle, nervous structures, glands, etc. It contains always 12 and sometimes more elements; the 12 essential elements are: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and sulphur. Other names for protoplasm are sarcode, bioplasm, biogen, cytoplasm.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A homogeneous, structureless substance, forming the physical basis of life, endowed with contractility, with a chemical composition allied to that of albumen.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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An apparently structureless substance, possessed of contractile powers, and of the same composition as the white of an egg, which is alleged to constitute the physical basis of life.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In bot., a coating of matter deposited on the inside of the cells of the cellular tissue, from which the cell-nuclei are formed.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The complex, jellylike, proteid, living substance of animals and plants which, in its undifferentiated stage, is capable of nutrition, growth, movement, and reproduction. The term was introduced independently by Purkinje (1839 to 1840) and von Mohl (1844). [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
