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deutoplasm
[doo-tuh-plaz-uhm, dyoo-]
noun
the reserve nutritive material, as a yolk granule, in the ovarian cytoplasm.
deutoplasm
/ ˈdjuːtərəʊˌplæzəm, ˈdjuːtəˌplæzəm /
noun
rarenutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
Other 51Թ Forms
- deutoplasmic adjective
- ˌܳٴˈ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deutoplasm1
Example Sentences
Deutoplasm, dū′tō-plasm, n. secondary, nutritive plasm, or food-yolk.—adjs.
Deutoplasm: the yolk or food plasm of an ovum.
Yolk: the nutritive matter of an egg as distinguished from the living, formative material; = deutoplasm.
Deutoplasm: secondary or differentiated plasm.
The contractions of the active protoplasm, which effect this continual cleavage of the cells, meet a greater resistance in the lower vegetal half from the passive deutoplasm than in the upper animal half.
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