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somatoplasm

American  
[suh-mat-uh-plaz-uhm, soh-muh-tuh-] / səˈmæt əˌplæz əm, ˈsoʊ mə tə- /

noun

Cell Biology.
  1. the cytoplasm of a somatic cell, especially as distinguished from germ plasm.


somatoplasm British  
/ ˈsəʊmətəˌplæzəm /

noun

  1. biology

    1. the protoplasm of a somatic cell

    2. the somatic cells collectively Compare germ plasm

"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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Origin of somatoplasm

somato- + -plasm

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The somatoplasm arises from, and hence must be regarded as a modification of, the germ-plasm.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

To form the somatoplasm of the different tissues of the body, this complicated organization breaks up, as the egg divides, into an ever-increasing number of cells.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

A large part of the germ-plasm of the fertilized egg is used to give rise to the somatoplasm composing the different systems of the embryo and adult.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

It is like a self-perpetuating, close corporation; and the somatoplasm has no means of either controlling it or of gaining representation in it.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

The process of changing germ-plasm into somatoplasm is one of disintegration.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

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