plasm, plasma (plaz'm, plas'mah). i

Of Haeckel, the animal or the vegetable substance which is the seat of all vital activity. See protoplasm. 2. The liquid portion of the unclotted blood and lymph. See blood p. blood p. The clear transparent fluid in which the blood corpuscles float, germ p. Syn.: germinal nucleoplasm. 1. The protoplasm of the germ cells. At every ontogenesis a portion of the germ plasma, on We is man's theory, is not used for the formation of the offspring, but is reserved unchanged to produce the germ cells of the following generation. It is, therefore, as deathle as the species itself. 2. See karyoplasm and nucleoplasm, histogenetic p. Syn.: histogenetic nucleoplasm. The protoplasm of the body, which controls the development or regeneration of the ti ues, in contradistinction to the germ p. lymph p. The liquid part of lymph; lymph le the lymph corpuscles, muscle p. A juice obtained from muscle by prolonged pre ure. It coagulates spontaneously, forming myosin. somatic p. Syn.: somatoplasm. The protoplasm of the cells of the body, other than the germ cells or the portion of the fertilized germ cell, which gives rise in development to these cells. [Gr., plasma, from pla ein, to mold.]