Plasma definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PLAS'MA, n. A silicious ... the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended [syn: plasma, plasm, blood plasma] 2: a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as ... present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their ... electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma" Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: German, from Late Latin, something ... lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material; especially blood plasma b. the juice that can be expressed from muscle ...
blood plasma definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the colorless ... the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended [syn: plasma, plasm, blood plasma] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1858 the pale yellow fluid ... as albumin, fibrinogen, and globulins) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Blood plasma (Physiol.), the colorless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended. Muscle plasma (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid ...
Muscle plasma definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Blood plasma (Physiol.), the colorless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended. Muscle plasma (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid ...
plasma torch definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1959 a device ... that heats a gas by electrical means to form a plasma for high-temperature operations (as melting metal)
plasma cell definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood [syn: plasma cell, plasmacyte] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1895 a lymphocyte ...
... the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended [syn: plasma, plasm, blood plasma] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Late Latin plasma something molded Date: 1747 plasma — compare germplasm Webster's 1913 Dictionary Plasm Plasm, n. [L. plasma anything formed or molded, that which is molded, Gr. ?, ?, from ? to form, mold: cf. F. plasme. Cf. Plasma.] 1. A mold or matrix in which anything is ...
... which separates from the muscles after coagulation of the muscle plasma; the watery portion of the plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma. Serum albumin (Physiol. Chem.), an albuminous body, closely related to ... milk, mucor, mucus, neutrophil, opsonin, peccant humor, perfusion, phagocyte, phlegm, plasma, plasma substitute, plasma transfusion, precipitin, purulence, pus, reciprocal transfusion, red ...
... is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to ... melodramatic. blood bank a place where supplies of blood or plasma for transfusion are stored. blood bath a massacre. blood-brother ... under Arterial. Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals ... and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship ... pernicious anemia, persuasion, phagocyte, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, plasma, plasma cell leukemia, plasma substitute, plasmacytoma, pneuma, poisoning, polycythemia, position, ...