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Webster 1913 Edition


Hygroplasm

Hy′gro-plasm

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] wet + [GREEK] form, mold.]
(Biol.)
The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition to stereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposed to be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.