Definition of protoplasm

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Protoplasm (n.) 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..

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Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.
Gymnoplast :: Gymnoplast (n.) A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle..
Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..
"aleurone :: Aleurone (n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains (protein granules) in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm..
Entoplasm :: Entoplasm (n.) The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
Chromoplastid :: Chromoplastid (n.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
Perinuclear :: Perinuclear (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm..
Ectoplasm :: Ectoplasm (n.) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
Bioplasm :: Bioplasm (n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
Pseudopod :: Pseudopod (n.) Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call..
Ectoplasm :: Ectoplasm (n.) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell.
Osteoblast :: Osteoblast (n.) One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast..
Spermoplasma :: Spermoplasma (n.) The protoplasm of the sperm cell.
Sarcode :: Sarcode (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
Cytode :: Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present..
Corpuscle :: Corpuscle (n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood..
Endoplasm :: Endoplasm (n.) The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
Mitome :: Mitome (n.) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.
Protoplasmic :: Protoplasmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
Myeloidin :: Myeloidin (n.) A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers..
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