plasma : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
  plasm; plasma.
  

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• (Physiol.), the colorless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended.

Webster 1913

• noun pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims)
  pneumocystis pneumonia; pneumocytosis; pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
  

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• (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid, albuminous fluid contained within the sarcolemma, which on the death of the muscle coagulates to a semisolid mass.

Webster 1913

• . (Biol.) See Idioplasma.

Webster 1913

• noun a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood
  plasmacyte.
  

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• noun a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell
  cytomembrane; cell membrane.
  
  • all cells have a cell membrane

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• noun the branch of physics concerned with matter in its plasma phase
  

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• noun any of the proteins in blood plasma
  

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• noun coagulation factor whose deficiency results in a hemorrhagic tendency
  factor XI.
  

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