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elds gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood…

The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

See Protoplasm.

A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

Pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm.

ital principle. The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. Mrs. E. Lynn Linton.

ns and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, call…

Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

Lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.

iol.), a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original cell wall is ruptured and the new cells are liberated (see Segmentation, and Illust.…

terior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.

One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the d…

he intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.