Category:Protoplasm

Pro"to*plasm, n. Etym: [proto- + gr. (biol.)

Defn: the viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and Animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of Nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical Basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, Bioplasm sarcode, etc.

Note: the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular Organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of The higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.