plasm
IPA: pɫæzʌm
noun
- (biology, archaic) Protoplasm.
- A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
- A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such layer.
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Examples of "plasm" in Sentences
- There is no evidence of a germ plasm in mammals.
- Also, only Underworld plasm can fuel this ability.
- It is the only basic geometry constructor in PLaSM.
- Germ plasm has been studied in detail in Drosophila.
- The syntax of PLaSM is very similar to that one of FL.
- Plasm envelops the sin eater, creating a form of armor.
- Germ plasm theory, on the other hand, does so effortlessly.
- There is an article on germ plasm and a separate one on germplasm.
- A plasm is a bolt of force which can be shot by men as well as spirits.
- Fortunately for you it is the only any kind of plasm that is enticing in any situation.
- Older than flowers, older than ferns, older than foraminiferae, older than plasm altogether is the soul underneath.
- He also speaks of the sensitiveness of "plasm," or the substance of "living bodies," as being "only a superior degree of the general irritability of substance."
- It is perhaps fortunate, then, that single celled organisms do not have consciousness or feelings, because if they did the mutant might never have been alive when its sisters all spontaneously lost cohesion of their cell membranes and spilled their plasm all over the primordial ocean.
- Some eugenicists, analogizing from the germ theory of disease, argued that the United States faced an extreme risk of degeneracy due to the unchecked breeding of the physically, mentally, and morally unfit whose defective “germ plasm” threatened to undermine the health and welfare of future generations.
- On the other hand, negative eugenics, which came to dominate the politics and policy of the movement in the early 20th Century, focused on controlling or eliminating the polluted "germ plasm" from the population by "scientific" social sorting via primitive IQ tests, by the passage of mandatory sterilization laws, and by segregating "defective" populations.
- He left out one bit, and that is the final scene where Mayor Sam, Joe B, Solomon and Phil J pilot an ecto-plasm charged 72 foot high statue of Joe Friday through Downtown, while blaring Randy Newman's "I Love LA" over loudspeakers and spraying evil spirit "Bratto" with enough slime to force him forever into a painting to be hung at the new LAPD headquarters.
- November 28th, 2007 at 7: 50 pm chodin says: true story: one of my buddies saw a porno where the "male lead" was about to bust and he goes, "hey - you see that clock over there?" and then the camera cuts to a shot of this clock. then the dude starts polishing his knob and he says "GA-DEEEEESH!!!!!" and blasts his ecto-plasm across the room and kills the clock.