Body Substance
plasma
plas·ma [ plaz-muh ]
Subclass of:
Extracellular Fluid;
Blood
Etymology:
Greek plasma = anything molded or a thing formed
Definitions related to plasma:
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Body substance in liquid state contained in the lumen of arterial and venous trees, blood capillary and the cardiac chambers; constitutes the liquid phase of blood.Digital AnatomistUniversity of Washington, 2003
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Fluid portion of the blood in which particulate components are suspended.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Plasma is the fluid (noncellular) portion of the circulating blood, as distinguished from the serum that is the fluid portion of the blood obtained by removal of the fibrin clot and blood cells after coagulation.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The clear, yellowish, fluid part of the blood that carries the blood cells. The proteins that form blood clots are in plasma.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The fluid (acellular) portion of the circulating blood with retained clotting components.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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The fluid in which blood cells are suspended.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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The residual portion of BLOOD that is left after removal of BLOOD CELLS by CENTRIFUGATION without prior BLOOD COAGULATION.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Plasma, the liquid portion of blood. Plasma serves as a transport medium for delivering nutrients to the cells of the various organs of the body and for transporting waste products derived from cellular metabolism to the kidneys, liver, and lungs for excretion. It is also a transport system for...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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