Definition of Living substance

1. Noun. The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus).

Exact synonyms: Protoplasm
Generic synonyms: Substance
Specialized synonyms: Cytol, Cytoplasm, Karyoplasm, Nucleoplasm, Germ Plasm, Plasm, Blood Platelet, Platelet, Thrombocyte

Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Substance

living fossils
living granite
living hell
living impaired
living in poverty
living in sin
living language
living languages
living quarters
living rock
living room
living rooms
living space
living standard
living stone
living substance (current term)
living thing
living tissue
living together
living trust
living up
living wage
living will
living wills
livingly
livingness
livingnesses
livingroom
livingroom set
livingroom suite

Literary usage of Living substance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Moreover, we have reasons to think that the living substance does not break down into ... I is not incorporated into the living substance at a single step, ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The differences therefore between living substance and dead substance though recondite are very great, and the ultimate object of Physiology is to ascertain ..."

3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"SELECTION OF ENVIRONMENT BY THE living substance. I have shown that throughout the Metazoan mass, as throughout the Protozoan, physiological function is ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... more complex living substance, the same fall of the living substance into simple waste-products. There is the same power <>Г active movement, ..."

5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"2nd. living substance — formative material, which has been endowed with absolute ... Formative material and living substance are seen respectively in the ..."

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