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Protoplasmic.

Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.

The protoplasm of the sperm cell. Haeckel.

The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.

ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory str…

med, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

(Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.

Less often, the mass of archoplasm left by the aster in the resting cell.

dged 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.

Bioplasm.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

Bioplasmic.

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

Resembling, or characterized by, buff. Buffy coat, the coagulated plasma of blood when the red corpuscles have so settled out that the coagulum appears nearly colorless. This is common in diseased conditions where the corpuscles run together more rapidly and in denser masses than usual. Huxley.

as excluding and including the centrosome, and also to designate a modified mass of protoplasm about a centrosome whether aster rays are developed or not.

Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low form…

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.