bioplasm
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All organic structure is the result of change taking place in bioplasm.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
But decidedly the most objectionable statement of Professor Beale, although one confidently re-affirmed by our "Boston Monday Lecturer," is that which makes bioplasm and bioplasts the only "living matter."
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
Bī′oblast, a formative cell, a minute mass of bioplasm or protoplasm about to become a definite cell.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The matter which forms the mass of a cell is called protoplasm, or bioplasm.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
Protoplasm, a name given to presumed living matter forming the physical bases of all forms of animal and vegetable life; the term is now superseded by the term bioplasm.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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