Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Living and germinal matter; formative, as distinguished from formed, matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any
living matter , but especiallygerminal or forming matter; matter possessingreproductive vitality ;protoplasm , especially in its relation to living processes and development.
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Examples
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The fact that Professor Beale has discovered that what he calls bioplasm and germinal points or bioplasts may take on a distinct and separate color from tissue, when subjected to a solution of carmine in ammonia, is no evidence that he has penetrated the adytum of this sacred temple of Life, wherein lies the "mystery of mysteries."
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Within the plant-cells is found a vital, vegetable substance termed bioplasm, or protoplasm; which furnishes the same nutritive power as the tissues of the polyp and jelly fish.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Yet the biological metaphor of "bioplasm" is so patently reductive to a materialist paradigm that I'm afraid such thinking remains ultimately limited by its choice of language and metaphor.
The epiphenomenal view of mind Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Clearly for Inyushin the biofield or the subtle energy field which is made up of bioplasm is a product of existing physical energy fields in the body.
The epiphenomenal view of mind Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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This is how we imagine objects.6The spirit cannot be reduced to biological components, be they bioplasm, microvita or even etheric energy--which is not to say that spirit cannot manifest in forms perceived in this way.
Right brain thinking. Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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This is a later derivative of the Kirlian work on the auric field which talks of bioplasm as the fifth state of matter--the others being solids, liquids, gases and plasma.
The epiphenomenal view of mind Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Inyushin defined bioplasm as follows: A living organism can be described as a "biological field" or a "biofield," a "field" being a region consisting of lines of force whichaffect each other.
The epiphenomenal view of mind Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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He ignored the bioplasm that splashed upon his face, and he kept punching until he broke through the plastic membrane that protected the forcefield conduits.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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He ignored the bioplasm that splashed upon his face, and he kept punching until he broke through the plastic membrane that protected the forcefield conduits.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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He ignored the bioplasm that splashed upon his face, and he kept punching until he broke through the plastic membrane that protected the forcefield conduits.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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