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Protoplasm

Protoplasm Meaning & Definition
Protoplasm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Protoplasm?

[n] the living substance of a cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Protoplasm: living substance

Related Terms | Find terms related to Protoplasm:

See Also | blood platelet | cytoplasm | germ plasm | karyoplasm | matter | nucleoplasm | plasm | platelet | substance | thrombocyte

Protoplasm In Webster's Dictionary

\Pro"to*plasm\, n. [Proto- + Gr. ? form, fr. ? to mold.] (Biol.) 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. Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.

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