meaning of protoplasms
1. 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.
2. the living substance of a cell including cytoplasm and nucleus
Related Words
protoplasm | protoplasmatic | protoplasmic | protoplasmic astrocyte | protoplast | protoplasta | protoplastic |