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- English Word Plashy Definition Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
- English Word Plashy Definition Specked, as if plashed with color.
- English Word Plasm Definition A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
- English Word Plasm Definition Same as Plasma.
- English Word Plasma Definition A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
- English Word Plasma Definition The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
- English Word Plasma Definition Unorganized material; elementary matter.
- English Word Plasma Definition A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
- English Word Plasmatic Definition Alt. of Plasmatical
- English Word Plasmatical Definition Forming; shaping; molding.
- English Word Plasmatical Definition Of or pertaining to plasma; having the character of plasma; containing, or conveying, plasma.
- English Word Plasmation Definition The act of forming or molding.
- English Word Plasmator Definition A former; a fashioner.
- English Word Plasmature Definition Form; mold.
- English Word Plasmic Definition Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.
- English Word Plasmid Definition A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease.
- English Word Plasmin Definition A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.
- English Word Plasmodia Definition of Plasmodium
- English Word Plasmodial Definition Of or pertaining to, or like, a plasmodium; as, the plasmodial form of a life cycle.
- English Word Plasmodium Definition A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.