What does Plasma mean?

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plas·ma

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. plasma, plasm, blood plasmanoun

    the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

  2. plasmanoun

    a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

  3. plasmanoun

    (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

    "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"

GCIDE

  1. Plasmanoun

    same as blood plasma.

  2. Plasmanoun

    (physics) a state of matter in which charged particles such as electrons and atomi nuclei have sufficiently high energy to move freely, rather than be bound in atoms as in ordinary matter; it has some of the properties of a gas, but is a conductor of electricity. In a typical plasma, the number of positive and negative particles are approximately equal. Plasmas are found naturally in the atmosphere of stars, and can be created in special laboratory apparatus.

Wiktionary

  1. plasmanoun

    A state of matter consisting of partially ionized gas

  2. plasmanoun

    A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin

  3. plasmanoun

    Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions

  4. plasmanoun

    A variety of green quartz, used in ancient times for making engraved ornaments.

  5. plasmanoun

    A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.

  6. plasmanoun

    A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.

  7. Etymology: From πλάσμα

ChatGPT

  1. plasma

    Plasma is the fourth state of matter, beyond solid, liquid, and gas. It is an ionized gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons in proportions resulting in more or less no overall electric charge. It is typically formed at high temperatures and is commonly found in stars and in space, but can also be created under certain conditions on earth, such as in fluorescent lights or plasma TVs. Its behaviors and properties are significantly influenced by electromagnetic fields. It is also the most common state of matter in the universe.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plasmanoun

    a variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments

  2. Plasmanoun

    the viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm

  3. Plasmanoun

    unorganized material; elementary matter

  4. Plasmanoun

    a mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments

  5. Etymology: [See Plasm.]

Wikidata

  1. Plasma

    Plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter. Heating a gas may ionize its molecules or atoms, thus turning it into a plasma, which contains charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons or ions. Ionization can be induced by other means, such as strong electromagnetic field applied with a laser or microwave generator, and is accompanied by the dissociation of molecular bonds, if present. Plasma can also be created by the application of an electric field on a gas, where the underlying process is the Townsend avalanche. The presence of a non-negligible number of charge carriers makes the plasma electrically conductive so that it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. Plasma, therefore, has properties quite unlike those of solids, liquids, or gases and is considered a distinct state of matter. Like gas, plasma does not have a definite shape or a definite volume unless enclosed in a container; unlike gas, under the influence of a magnetic field, it may form structures such as filaments, beams and double layers. Some common plasmas are found in stars and neon signs. In the universe, plasma is the most common state of matter for ordinary matter, most of which is in the rarefied intergalactic plasma and in stars. Much of the understanding of plasmas has come from the pursuit of controlled nuclear fusion and fusion power, for which plasma physics provides the scientific basis.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Plasma

    plas′ma, n. a green variety of translucent quartz or silica.—adj. Plas′mic. [Gr.,—plassein, to form.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Plasma

    The residual portion of BLOOD that is left after removal of BLOOD CELLS by CENTRIFUGATION without prior BLOOD COAGULATION.

Editors Contribution

  1. plasma

    A type of matter.

    The blood plasma levels were accurate and she was healthy.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 20, 2020  

Entomology

  1. Plasma

    the liquid portion of animal fluids and cells.

Anagrams for Plasma »

  1. lampas

  2. Palmas

  3. palmas

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Plasma in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Plasma in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Plasma in a Sentence

  1. Anand Shah:

    Per policy, we are not able to comment on whether or not we will take any action regarding emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma and will render a decision at the appropriate time, of note, the safe use of convalescent plasma remains available to patients through several pathways, including clinical trials, a national expanded access protocol, or through a single patient emergency investigational new drug request.

  2. Wang Linfa:

    The blood samples taken from the bats contain antibodies, which they produced to fight off the virus, these could serve as the basis for the development of a vaccine or a plasma treatment against a new pathogen.

  3. Tom Hanks:

    We have not only been approached, we have said,' Do you want our blood ? Can we give plasma ?' and in fact, we will be giving it now to the places that hope to work on what I would like to call the' Hank-ccine,'.

  4. Anthony Fauci:

    One of the things you do is you get the virus and you grow it or you put it into a modified form called a pseudovirus. And when you do that, you can then get convalescent plasma, monoclonal antibodies, as well as sera and antibodies that are induced by the vaccine to see if they neutralize the virus.

  5. Manu Shankar-Hari:

    It is biologically plausible that patients who are not producing antibodies at the time of convalescent plasma therapy and those patients with excess virus may benefit more than others. Our additional analyses will explore this.

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