About The Word Protoplasm
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Protoplasm
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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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