ˈplazmə noun
( -s )
Etymology: German, from Late Latin, form, mold, from Greek, from plassein to mold — more at plaster
1. : a faintly translucent cryptocrystalline variety of quartz of various shades of green
2.
[New Latin, from Late Latin, form, mold]
a. : the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk that is distinguishable from suspended material (as fat globules or cells) and that in blood differs from serum essentially in containing the antecedent substance of fibrin in addition to the constituents of serum
b. : the juice that can be expressed from muscle
3.
[New Latin]
: protoplasm
4. : a mixture of starch and glycerol used as an ointment base
5. : an ionized gas (as in the atmospheres of stars) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and differing from an ordinary gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field