Definition of Protoplasmic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Definition of Protoplasmic

1. Adjective. (cytology) Of or relating to protoplasm. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Protoplasmic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protoplasmic

protophytes
protophytology
protopine
protopines
protoplanet
protoplanetary
protoplanetary disc
protoplanetary discs
protoplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebulae
protoplanetary nebulas
protoplanets
protoplasm
protoplasmal
protoplasmatic
protoplasmic (current term)
protoplasmic astrocyte
protoplasms
protoplast
protoplastic
protoplastid
protoplastids
protoplasts
protopod
protopodite
protopods
protopope
protopopes
protoporcelain

Literary usage of Protoplasmic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"On the Structure of the Nerve Cells ami on the Relation of their Axis Cylinder or JYe/ve Process, to the protoplasmic Processes. ..."

2. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"Every chlorophyll-body consists then of at least two substances, the colouring matter and its protoplasmic vehicle ; if the former is removed by alcohol, ..."

3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1897)
"THE DEPENDENCE OF protoplasmic MOVEMENT UPON METABOLISM AND UPON EXTERNAL ... First, protoplasmic movement is closely related to metabolism and is probably ..."

4. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"THE DEPENDENCE OF protoplasmic MOVEMENT UPON METABOLISM AND UPON EXTERNAL ... First, protoplasmic movement is closely related to metabolism and is probably ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"In numerous places the offshoots of the elements are not protoplasmic, but slightly fibrous, indicating a more advanced stage of development of the ..."

6. Handbook of Practical Botany: For the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1887)
"15) shows a thin continuous lining layer [" peripheral layer "] of protoplasm, and is traversed in the interior by numerous thinner and thicker protoplasmic ..."

7. Kirkes': Handbook of Physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes, William Hayden Rockwell, Charles Loomis Dana (1902)
"In more complicated structures than the amoeba, the life of individual protoplasmic cells is probably very short in comparison with that «f the organism ..."

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