(n.) The semifluid, translucent substance forming the principal portion of a living cell\; the viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.

animal cell bioplast cell cellular tissue cellule chromatoplasm coenocyte corpuscle cytoplasm ectoplasm endoplasm energid eucaryotic cell germ cell plant cell plasmodium procaryotic cell reticulum somatic cell syncytium trophoplasm