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bioplasm

British  
/ ˈbaɪəʊˌplæzəm /

noun

  1. rare living matter; protoplasm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Allen, Martha Meir

Nor can any difference be discerned between the bioplasm matter of the lowest, simplest, epithelial scale of man's organism and that from which the nerve cells of his brain are to be evolved.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

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 Wright, R. W.

The two opening sections of this book treat of kami that were in the minds even of the makers of the myths little more than mud and water13—the mere bioplasm of deity.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

For he gains nothing by merely substituting "bioplasm" and "bioplasts" for "protoplasm" and "plastide particles."

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

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