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The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.

Protoplasmic.

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

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

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

s formed, 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.

d 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.

living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

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

both 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.

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.

It yields 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.

od matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.