Definition of plasma:

• a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone
• ( physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; " particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"
• The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
• Unorganized material; elementary matter.
• A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
• The colorless watery part of the blood in which the red corpuscles fioat; a grass- green stone used in jewelry. Also, plasm.
• 1. The fluid portion of the circulating blood, distinguished from the serum obtained after coagulation 2. The fluid portion of the lymph. 3. Protoplasm. 4. Glycerite of starch, glyceritum amyli, used as an excipient for ointments.
• Fluid of blood; it is without color.
• A variety of quartz or chalcedony; elementary matter, specially that out of which organized tissues develop; also the fluid in which the red particles of the blood are suspended.
• The colourless fluid part of the blood in which the corpuscles float; a faintly translucent chalcedony on which many ancient gems are engraved, of a grass- green or leek- green colour, sprinkled with yellow and whitish specks.
• The " liquid tissue" of body fluids through which leucocytes and corpuscles are disseminated; protoplasm generally.

Usage examples for plasma

1. He inspects the knife gravely, sends it to the laboratory to check whether it has cut bread made from wheat infected with the dread wheat cholera or has come into contact with tuleremic pork plasma, etc.  Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana by Durham, Andrew Everett