bioplasmn.

1869 Trans. Vermont Med. Soc. 1867 & 1868 285 The object is to saturate the blood with it [sc. bisulphite of soda or magnesia] before the morbid ferment or bioplasm destroys innervation and nutrition.

1870 L. S. Beale Dis. Germs: their Supposed Nature 12 The term I propose to apply to the living or germinal self-propagating matter of living beings, and to restrict to this, is Bioplasm.

1882 Spectator 30 Sept. 1251 A bit of bioplasm, or a minute parasitical organism.

1919 Sci. Monthly Dec. 539 Functional momentum is that property of bioplasm in virtue of which the living matter..continues to exhibit its activity or inactivity after the stimulus has ceased.

2003 Stud. Hist. & Philos. Sci. C. 34 368 Practitioners..remained divided as to whether the infective agent was chemical, parasitic, or arose within the bodies of infected cattle (the so-called 'bioplasm' theory).

1870 Lancet 30 July 157/1 He gives an ingenious scheme, by which..the degradation of such bioplasmic masses as occur in the different infectious diseases may be explained.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Introd. Study Biol. 71 Bioplasmic matter is colourless, transparent, and apparently wholly destitute of structure.

1883 J. H. Wright Sci. Dogmatism 12 All that may be scientifically true or scientistically false in connexion with bioplasmic theories.

1913 Lancet 20 Sept. 854/1 (heading) The complexity of bioplasmic problems.