Meaning of ECTOPLASM
| Pronunciation: | | 'ektu`plazum
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- [n] the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm
- [n] (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ec"to*plasm\, n. [Ecto- + Gr. ? form.] (Biol.)
(a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing
ovum.
(b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable
cell.
(c) The ectosarc of protozoan.
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| | Definition: | | Cytoplasm embedded with microfilaments (to give it rigidity) and lacking organelles that is found just under the cytoplasmic membrane in ciliates (one-celled organisms with cilia). |
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| | Related Terms: | | animal cell, aura, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule, chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, cytoplasm, ectoplasy, effluvium, emanation, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, exteriorized protoplasm, germ cell, plant cell, plasmodium, procaryotic cell, protoplasm, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium, trophoplasm |
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