cytoplasmn.

1857 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 5 144 They [sc. gonidia] represent, as it were, a cytoplasma liberated from the envelopes.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. p. clx The greater part, or even the whole of the body of a Protozoon, may consist simply of Protoplasm, s. Cytoplasm, s. Sarcode.

1889 Nature 24 Oct. 624 The embryo is developed from the whole of the nucleus and more or less of the cytoplasm of the ovum.

1906 Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. 30 In many Sarcodina and some Sporozoa the nucleus gives off small fragments into the cytoplasm or is resolved into them.

1937 Life 13 Sept. 70/1 The cytoplasm is supposedly sterile matter.

1956 R. Carrington Guide Earth Hist. (1958) ix. 89 Feeding is equally simple, minute particles of animal and vegetable matter being surrounded on each side by pseudopods and then incorporated into the cytoplasm.

1994 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. c3/2 A picorna virus commandeers protein-synthesizing machinery inside a cell's cytoplasm.

2008 New Scientist 26 Apr. 29/3 Iridophores combine platelets of a protein called reflectin with layers of cytoplasm to produce iridescent reflections rather like those of butterfly wings.

1893 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 766 The rest of the cell is filled with a cytoplasmatic network.

1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. iv. 54 This condition is known as cloudy swelling, an enlargement of cells caused by an increase in water content and cytoplasmatic granulation.

2004 Injury 36 695/2 Apoptosis is characterized morphologically by cell shrinking, with cytoplasmatic condensation (apoptotic bodies), nuclear condensation (pycnosis) and DNA-fragmentation.