plasma
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plasma


Term: plasma
Origin: Anc Greek
?????? (noun)/plasma(=something formed or molded, an idol) > ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold)
original meaning: a substance without shape
Coined: ?
The term "plasma membrane" was coined by a Swiss botanist Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817 ?1891) in 1855 and term plasma cell was coined by German anatomist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836 -1921, Berlin) in 1875. American chemist and physicist Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) coined the term plasma for one form of the matter after its resemblance to living blood cells

Definition:
In physical sciences, plasma refers to the fourth state of matter (an ionized state of matter similar to a gas) while in medicine and biology plasma is defined as the non-cellular fluid component of blood .

Runon deratives
ectoplasm, protoplasm, cytoplasm, plasmalemma, plasmodium, plasmid,
 




- Plasmin
Term: plasminLiterally meaning: ?plasma protein?Origin: Anc Greek ??????(noun)/plasma (=something formed or molded, an idol) > ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold)Coined/HistoryIn 1933 Tillett and Garner discovered a fibrinolytic component contained...

- Plasmapheresis
Term: plasmapheresisLiterally meaning: ?withdraw plasma? Origin: Anc Greek? JJ ABEL 1857 ? 1938? ??????(noun)/plasma (=something formed or molded, an idol) > ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold).+?????????/apheresis(=taking away, withdraw)Coined/HistoryIn...

- Plasmacyte
Term: plasmacyteLiterally meaning: ?plasma cell?Origin: Anc Greek?????? (noun)/plasma (=something formed or molded, an idol)> ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold).+????-/cyto- (=combining form meaning ?cell? derived from anc Greek ??????/kytion/cytion=box,...

- Apoplast
Term:apoplastOrigin: Anc Greek???-/apo(=away from)?????? (noun)/plasma(=something formed or molded, an idol) > ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold) literally apoplast means that thee is a distinction or detachment  of cell protoplast in a plant...

- Plasmid
Term: plasmidOrigin: Anc Greek ?????? (noun)/plasma(=something formed or molded, an idol) > ??????/plasso(=create, form, mold) -????/idio(=-id, suffix that is used as diminutive of a noun )original meaning of plasma: substance of uncertain shape.Joshua...



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