The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cytoplasm \Cy"to*plasm\ (s?"t?-pl?z'm), n. [Gr. ky`tos hollow vessel + ???? a mold.] (Biol.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus. -- Cy`to*plas"mic (-pl?z"m?k), a. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. (context cytology English) Of or pertaining to cytoplasm.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to cytoplasm [syn: cytoplasmatic]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "cytoplasmic".
And there are others, not yet clearly delineated, whose existence in the cell is indicated by the presence of cytoplasmic genes.
Bacterial DNA simply sprawls out amid the cytoplasmic goo like a circular double-helix of snarled and knotted Slinkies.
Then came a bump on the screen as the cells contracted while the cytoplasmic organelles worked like crazy to pump the ions back into the extracellular fluid.
The energy liberated by the oxidization of the products of cytoplasmic metabolism is converted into adenosine triphosphate .
One of these was a blowup holo of cytoplasmic streaming, of an amoeba pumping parts of itself into other parts of itself in order to move, to capture and digest prey.
I stared at waves of bright red eosinophilic inclusions within infected epithelial cells, or the cytoplasmic Guarnieri bodies indicative of a pox-type virus.
They are more like bundles of actin or myosin fibrils, surrounded by networks of macrotubules which transport cytoplasmic components, much as do microtubules in our familiar cellular structure.