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.

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somatoplasm British  

/ ˈsəʊmətəˌplæzəm /

noun

1. biology

   1. the protoplasm of a somatic cell

   2. the somatic cells collectively Compare germ plasm

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• somatoplastic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of somatoplasm

somato- + -plasm

Example Sentences

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

From this point of view every individual consists of only two parts,—germ-plasm and soma or somatoplasm.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

Weismann's explanation of this change of germ-plasm into somatoplasm is very ingenious, and depends upon his theory of the structure of the germ-plasm; and this latter theory forms the basis of his theory of evolution.

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 germ-plasm can increase indefinitely in the lapse of generations, increase of the somatoplasm is limited.

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