cytoplasm
pronunciation
How to pronounce cytoplasm in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪtəʊplæzəm]
How to pronounce cytoplasm in American English:
US [ˈsaɪtoʊplæzəm]
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- Noun:
- the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus
Word Origin
- cytoplasm (n.)
- 1874, from cyto- + -plasm.
Example
- 1. They slit open the organisms and suck out the cytoplasm .
- 2. Most of the cytoplasm has been squeezed out in order to make the sperm an efficient torpedo-like swimming machine .
- 3. If my right leg is the cell wall and my left the membrane , do you want to be the cytoplasm ?
- 4. Ivf often fails in older women because there are abnormalities in the outside of their eggs , known as cytoplasm , which surrounds the nucleus .
- 5. Alcohol is chemically similar to water , so it can work its way into bacterial cytoplasm , where it makes the proteins fall apart , killing the cell .