deutoplasm

[ doo-tuh-plaz-uhm, dyoo- ]

noun

, Embryology.

1. the reserve nutritive material, as a yolk granule, in the ovarian cytoplasm.

deutoplasm

/ ˈdjuːtərəʊˌplæzəm; ˈdjuːtəˌplæzəm /

noun

1. rare.
   nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum

Derived Forms

• ˌdeutoˈplasmic, adjective

Other Words From

• deuto·plasmic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deutoplasm¹

1880–85; < Greek deút ( eros ) second + -o- + -plasm

Example Sentences

Deutoplasm, dū′tō-plasm, n. secondary, nutritive plasm, or food-yolk.—adjs.

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Deutoplasm: the yolk or food plasm of an ovum.

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Yolk: the nutritive matter of an egg as distinguished from the living, formative material; = deutoplasm.

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Deutoplasm: secondary or differentiated plasm.

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The contractions of the active protoplasm, which effect this continual cleavage of the cells, meet a greater resistance in the lower vegetal half from the passive deutoplasm than in the upper animal half.

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