plasm-


  1. variant of plasmo- before a vowel: plasmapheresis.

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Other definitions for -plasm (2 of 2)

-plasm

  1. a combining form with the meanings “living substance,” “tissue,” “substance of a cell,” used in the formation of compound words: endoplasm; neoplasm; cytoplasm.

Origin of -plasm

2
Combining form representing Greek plásma.See plasma

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How to use plasm- in a sentence

  • Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment?

  • It would seem that a stemonitis, for example, must owe the rise of the spore-plasm to the play of different machinery.

    The North American Slime-Moulds | Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
  • But this difference is easily explained by their difference in consistency, the crystal being solid and the plasm semi-fluid.

    The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
  • The "miracle of life" is in essence nothing but the metabolism of the living matter, or of the plasm.

    The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
  • In my opinion, this paradoxical theory of death has no more basis than the germ-plasm theory he has ingeniously connected with it.

    The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel

British Dictionary definitions for plasm (1 of 2)

plasm

/ (ˈplæzəm) /


noun
  1. protoplasm of a specified type: germ plasm

  2. a variant of plasma

British Dictionary definitions for -plasm (2 of 2)

-plasm

n combining form
  1. (in biology) indicating the material forming cells: protoplasm; cytoplasm

Origin of -plasm

2
from Greek plasma something moulded; see plasma

Derived forms of -plasm

  • -plasmic, adj combining form

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