protoplasmicadj.

1854 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. V. 67/1 The formation of nuclei or cells in a protoplasmic matrix.

1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 127 Quinia..is a protoplasmic poison, and arrests the amœbiform movements of the white corpuscles.

1899 L. Hill Man. Human Physiol. xxix. 337 Each [nerve-]fibre consists of a soft central strand of protoplasmic substance called the axon or axis cylinder.

1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa vi. 81 To the primary centrosome or centriole there may be added adventitious elements of protoplasmic or nuclear origin, thus forming a centrosomic complex.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxv. 490 Infection of the host is caused by small, motile, naked protoplasmic bodies resembling lowly animals, and therefore called zoospores.

1991 R. A. Fortey Fossils (ed. 2) (BNC) 55 The flexible amoeba, which is the protoplasmic ‘blob’ of popular imagination, is a familiar protozoan without much potential for fossilization.

1880 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 2 559 It [sc. a lake] had run itself, in the hearsay accounts of successive travellers, into various protoplasmic shapes.

1888 Athenæum 7 Jan. 13 The metrical systems of the banished régime..have, no doubt, a primitive and even a protoplasmic simplicity.

1891 Daily News 20 Oct. 2/6 The barber-surgeon and medicine man of ancient times, who furnished the protoplasmic material out of which the art of medicine and surgery had been evolved.

1926 W. Lewis Creatures of Habit in Cal. Mod. Lett. 3 41 The little conventional carved figures, with their carefully evolved protoplasmic masks, are there just the same.

2003 Houston (Texas) Press (Nexis) 8 May Markley's set..suggests a preconscious, protoplasmic dream state.

1922 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 93 168 I have shown elsewhere that the epidermis, which protoplasmically is more or less dead, gives either a zero or a positive [response].

1939 Rev. Politics 1 145 The Fuehrer appears to pour forth upon this protoplasmically united mass the contagion of his hysteria.

1975 W. R. Uttal Cellular Neurophysiol. & Integration ix. 187 The contemporary doctrine of neuronal anatomy asserts that neurons transmitting information within the nervous system are not protoplasmically interconnected.

1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie viii. 195 The one totally new experience, protoplasmically different from anyone I had ever met, was the gnome..who wrote spiritual books for Sheed and Ward.