plasma

1. 1.

   the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

   Synonymsplasmblood plasma

   Broaderextracellular fluid
2. 2.

   a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

   Broaderchalcedony
3. 3.

   (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

   “particles in space exist in the form of a plasma”

   Broaderstate of matter

   Narrowerinterplanetary gas

   physical chemistry

Other forms of plasma

plural

plasmas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plasma

What does plasma mean?

plasma means "the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plasma?

plasma has 2 syllables: plas-ma. The stress falls on "plas". In IPA it is /ˈplæzmə/.

What is another word for plasma?

Close synonyms include plasm, blood plasma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plasma a common word?

plasma is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.