n.
- The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements.
- Blood plasma.
- Medicine. Cell-free, sterilized blood plasma, used in transfusions.
- Protoplasm or cytoplasm.
- The fluid portion of milk from which the curd has been separated by coagulation; whey.
- Physics. An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, and normal gases.
[New Latin, from Late Latin, image, figure, from Greek, from plassein, to mold.]
plasmatic plas·mat'ic (plăz-măt'ĭk) or plas'mic (-mĭk) adj.
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