plasmatic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to (blood) plasma.
adj
Of or pertaining to protoplasm.
adj
Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.
Example Sentences
- "Since most plasmatic fractions are virus-inactivated, they seem to be somewhat safer than blood products that are not."
- "The graft is nourished initially by plasmatic imbibition, or plasmatic circulation, a process whereby plasma is imbibed passively by capillary action into the exposed lumen of the graft's vessels."
- "Because of the repeated reduced plasmatic coagulation test, haemostaseology specialists were involved."
- "Nevertheless, the determining causes cannot at present be precisely defined, and it is hardly probable that the plasmatic membrane is simply the direct expression of the physical surface tension, which is necessarily always present."
- "They are small granules of plasmatic substance occurring at the junctions of the meshes of the alveolar protoplasm."
- "Separation of plasmatic compartments from other plasmatic ones cannot be effected by a single biomembrane but only by at least two membranes, that is, by interposition of a nonplasmatic compartment."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “anything formed or molded”) (genitive πλάσματος (plásmatos)) + -ic.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ic