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Nucleoplasm :: Nucleoplasm (n.) The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.

Mycoprotein :: Mycoprotein (n.) The protoplasmic matter of which bacteria are composed.

Poultice :: Poultice (n.) A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm..

Mitome :: Mitome (n.) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

Chromoplastid :: Chromoplastid (n.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

Mythoplasm :: Mythoplasm (n.) A narration of mere fable.

Blastema :: Blastema (n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows..

Perinuclear :: Perinuclear (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm..

Protoplasmic :: Protoplasmic (a.) Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm..

Plasma :: Plasma (n.) Unorganized material; elementary matter.

Pseudopod :: Pseudopod (n.) Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call..

Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division..

Protoplasmic :: Protoplasmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Bioplasmic :: Bioplasmic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, bioplasm..

Gymnoplast :: Gymnoplast (n.) A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle..

Ovum :: Ovum (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle..

Anastate :: Anastate (n.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate..

Myosin :: Myosin (n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma..

Metaplasm :: Metaplasm (n.) A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

Bathybius :: Bathybius (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin..

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