Medical Definition of Ergastoplasm
1. Synonym: granular endoplasmic reticulum. Origin: G. Ergaster, a workman, + plasma, something formed (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ergastoplasm
Literary usage of Ergastoplasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1902)
"These observations were confirmed by Gamier and Ham- mar, and the name of "
ergastoplasm" applied to this differentiated portion of protoplasm. ..."
2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"... out the filaments of ergastoplasm in the fresh cell, so that they seem to be
present in the living cell, and not to be produced by the fixation process. ..."
3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"The ergastoplasm represents a substance intermediate between those of plasmatic
and those of cytoplasmic origin, and serves to transform for the cytoplasm ..."
4. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1913)
"... ergastoplasm, etc.).—These formations are fixed, more or less abundantly, by
most of the usual fixatives. But some kinds of them seem to be attacked by ..."
5. Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicene by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"From this basophilic ergastoplasm, as it is called, the granules are gradually
formed, and then for some time continue to undergo slight further changes, ..."
6. Investigations representing the departments by University of Chicago, E.F. Young, John Dewey (1903)
"... ergastoplasm of Cade and Garnier). It is possible that the transformation of
the substances received by the cell into mucin is accomplished by the ..."
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