blood plasma

noun

blood plasma

the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
a sterilized preparation of this fluid for use in transfusions

blood plasma

The clear, liquid part of the blood, composed mainly of water and proteins, in which the blood cells are suspended. The blood plasma of mammals also contains platelets.

First recorded in 1905–10

Lymph, then, is practically blood plasma plus some colorless corpuscles.

All nose lotions should be alkaline, and isotonic with the blood plasma.

There are many insects which likewise possess a poisonous blood plasma.

They live in the blood-plasma and do not attack the corpuscles.

The blood-corpuscles are large amoebiform cells, and the blood-plasma is coloured blue by haemocyanin.

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