Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hypothetical soul-stuff; the substance of a supposed spiritual body; the od of organic life.
- noun In biology, one of the smallest theoretical units of living substance: same as plasome, biophore, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Bioplasm.
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- noun biology
bioplasm
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Examples
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Living protoplasm, or in other words a biogen molecule, is regarded as consisting of a central atom group (_Leistungskern_), related to which are numerous secondary atom groups or side-chains, with unsatisfied chemical affinities.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The explanation is thus carried back to the complicated constitution of biogen molecules in various living cells of the body.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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If science could only behold this wonderful laboratory within the vital storehouse of Nature, she would no longer vainly seek for the origin of life, nor wonder, what may have become of the missing link in scientific evolution, because, she would quickly realize that, biogen - esis is the one grand truth of both animate and inanimate Nature, the central, living source of which is God.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900
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Or Sante doesn't want competing biogen hydrocarbons. "
Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004
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