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Definition of Deutoplasm
1. n. The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.
Definition of Deutoplasm
1. Noun. (biology) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance. ¹
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Definition of Deutoplasm
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Medical Definition of Deutoplasm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Deutoplasm
Literary usage of Deutoplasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"The living egg of //. solitaria is so small and so richly supplied with deutoplasm
that satisfactory observations on the segmentation ..."
2. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"In the very young ovum the cytoplasm is small in amount and free from deutoplasm.
As the egg enlarges, the cytoplasm increases enormously, a process which ..."
3. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The egg of the Nereis is laden with yolk consisting of clear deutoplasm spheres (</)
and ... Young ovarian eggs with yolk-nuclei and deposite of deutoplasm. ..."
4. Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1905)
"The quantity and distribution of the deutoplasm in the egg-cell is subject to
... (4) The deutoplasm is present in greater quantity, and, in consequence of ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"The deutoplasm is exceedingly dense* at this time, and often appears to contain
fragments of the degenerated nucleolus, so that the details are much ..."
6. The Science and Art of Midwifery by William Thompson Lusk (1896)
"The small particles consist of nutrient material, and are termed deutoplasm, or
the nutritive yelk, as they constitute at an early period the material which ..."
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