plasma

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Around the plasma is a thin boundary layer called the sheath.

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  1. noun The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements.
  2. noun Blood plasma.
  3. noun Medicine Cell-free, sterilized blood plasma, used in transfusions.
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  • The magnetic field is frozen into the plasma, and the plasma is allowed to inflate to the limits of the vacuum chamber walls. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • Such an audacious plan demanded an extraordinary material, and the two had one in mind: an exotic form of thin air known as a plasma. —  New Scientist - Online News
  • Of course I do have a plasma which is great with SD sources. —  Eurogamer
  • Around the plasma is a thin boundary layer called the sheath. —  innovations-report
  • So this morning I made some commits that changed "plasma" to "plasma-desktop". —  Planet KDE
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  1. New Latin, from Late Latin, image, figure, from Greek, from plassein, to mold; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin: see plasm.
 

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