endoplasm

[ Gr.end on =within, and plasma = anything formed or molded; pla ō -to mold, to shape.] Zool.: A diffluent sarcode, constituting the central ma in the body of an Infusorian. It is called also Chyme-ma . en-do-plăst, s . [Gr. end on within, and plastos Zool .: A rounded or oval body in the protoplasm of the endoplastic a (q. v.). It resembles the nucleus of a histological cell, but can be distinguished from it chemically. =formed, molded.] [ENDOPLASM.] en-do-plăs-tic-a, s. pl. [ENDOPLAST.] Zool.: A cla of animals, the higher of two ranked under the sub-kingdom Protozoa. It consists of the animals having in their protoplasm an Endoplast (q. v.). Profe or Huxley divides them into the following sub-cla es or orders: (1) Radio lari a, (2) Protoplast a, or Amœbe, (3) Gregarinida, (4) Cat all act a (7) the last a emblage, founded by Haeckel, being po ibly referable to the Infusoria.