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A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments. U. S. Disp. Blood plasma (Physiol.), the colorless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended. -- Muscle plasma (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid, albuminous fluid contained within…

Of or pertaining to plasma; having the character of plasma; containing, or conveying, plasma.

The act of forming or molding. [R.] Grafton.

A former; a fashioner. [R.] "The sovereign plasmator, God Almighty." Urquhart.

Form; mold. [R.]

Same as Entoplasm and Endosarc.

reditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.

The protoplasmic substance of the nucleus of a cell: nucleoplasm; -- in opposition to kytoplasma, the protoplasm of the cell.

See Karyoplasma.

Hyaline plasma contained in the nucleus of vegetable cells.

Yolk; egg yolk. Haeckel.

Protoplasmic.

The protoplasm of the sperm cell. Haeckel.

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.

The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus. -- Cy`to*plas"mic (-pl, a.

Same as Idioplasma.

dergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomac…

agulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.

rtaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.