plasm-
variant of plasmo- before a vowel: plasmapheresis.
Other definitions for -plasm (2 of 2)
a combining form with the meanings “living substance,” “tissue,” “substance of a cell,” used in the formation of compound words: endoplasm; neoplasm; cytoplasm.
Origin of -plasm
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How to use plasm- in a sentence
Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment?
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairIt would seem that a stemonitis, for example, must owe the rise of the spore-plasm to the play of different machinery.
The North American Slime-Moulds | Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBrideBut this difference is easily explained by their difference in consistency, the crystal being solid and the plasm semi-fluid.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst HaeckelThe "miracle of life" is in essence nothing but the metabolism of the living matter, or of the plasm.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst HaeckelIn my opinion, this paradoxical theory of death has no more basis than the germ-plasm theory he has ingeniously connected with it.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
British Dictionary definitions for plasm (1 of 2)
/ (ˈplæzəm) /
protoplasm of a specified type: germ plasm
a variant of plasma
British Dictionary definitions for -plasm (2 of 2)
(in biology) indicating the material forming cells: protoplasm; cytoplasm
Origin of -plasm
2Derived forms of -plasm
- -plasmic, adj combining form
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