ˈplasmosome Biol.
(-səʊm)
Also erron. plasma-.
[f. plasmo- + Gr. σῶµα body.]
‘A separate particle of protoplasm, such as certain particles observed in cell-nuclei’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1889 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. XXX. ii. 168 The out-wandering plasmasomes form the so-called ‘paranuclei’ (Nebenkerne), which take so important a share in the regeneration of cells. 1900 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 34 The so-called true nucleoli or plasmosomes. |