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Protoplasm

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.

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Cytoplasm 76% connected

The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.

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Germ plasm 76% connected

See Plasmogen, and Idioplasm.

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Nucleoplasm 76% connected

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

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Plasm 76% connected

A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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