protoplasm
pronunciation
How to pronounce protoplasm in British English:
UK [ˈprəʊtəplæzəm]
How to pronounce protoplasm in American English:
US [ˈproʊtəplæzəm]
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- Noun:
- the living substance of a cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
Word Origin
- protoplasm (n.)
- 1848, from German Protoplasma (1846), used by German botanist Hugo von Mohl (1805-1872), on notion of "first-formed," from Greek proto- "first" (see proto-) + plasma "something molded" (see -plasm). The word was in Late Latin with a sense of "first created thing," and it might have existed in ecclesiastical Greek in a different sense. It was used 1839 by Czech physiologist Johannes Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) to denote the gelatinous fluid found in living tissue. The modern meaning is a refinement of this. This word prevailed, though German language purists preferred Urschleim.
Example
- 1. Attempts have been made to construct protoplasm in the lab.
- 2. Others are associated with the protoplasm of the cell .
- 3. Amino acid is the primary resource to synthesize protein , ferment , chlorophyll and other protoplasm .
- 4. Two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm ; reduced to a microscopic scale .
- 5. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood ; essential for blood clotting .