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Cytoblastema

Cytoblastema \Cy`to*blas*te"ma\ (-bl?s-t?"m?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + ???? growth.] (Biol.) See Protoplasm.

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cytoblastema

n. (context biology English) protoplasm

Usage examples of "cytoblastema".

For example, the fluid part of the blood is the cytoblastema, the blood corpuscles being the cells.

This idea of the cytoblastema was early thrown into suspicion, and almost at the time of the announcement of the cell doctrine certain microscopists made the claim that these cells did not come from any structureless medium, but by division from other cells like themselves.

In such a history each cell comes from pre-existing cells and a cytoblastema plays no part.