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Plasm   Listen
noun
Plasm  n.  
1.
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. (R.)
2.
(Biol.) Same as Plasma.






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"Plasm" Quotes from Famous Books



... time it takes them to sporulate. Let us begin with the parasite after it has been introduced into the blood and trace its development there. At first it is slender and rod-like in shape. It has some power of movement in the blood-plasm. Very soon it attacks one of the red blood-corpuscles and gradually pierces its way through the wall and into the corpuscle substance (Fig. 99); here it becomes more amoeboid and continues to move about, feeding all the time on the corpuscle substance, gradually destroying the ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane

... Further, nurture is capable of subdivision into those environmental influences which do not undergo much change,—e.g., soil and climate,—and those forces of civilization and education which might better be described as culture. The evolutionist has really to deal with the three factors of germ-plasm, physical surroundings and culture. But Galton's phrase is so widely current that we shall continue to use it, with the implications that have just ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson



Words linked to "Plasm" :   plasma protein, ECF, protoplasm, gamma globulin, human gamma globulin



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