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Definition of Nucleoplasm

1. Noun. The protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell.

Definition of Nucleoplasm

1. n. The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.

Definition of Nucleoplasm

1. Noun. The protoplasm of a cell nucleus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nucleoplasm

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nucleoplasm

1. By analogy with cytoplasm, that part of the nuclear contents other than the nucleolus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nucleoplasm

Literary usage of Nucleoplasm

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

1. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann (1891)
"... the whole of the inherited tendencies of development, it must follow that during segmentation and subsequent cell-division, the nucleoplasm will enter ..."

2. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"It therefore follows that the growing egg-cell must possess nucleoplasm of specific ... The nucleoplasm of histologically differentiated cells may be called ..."

3. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"It therefore follows that the growing egg-cell must possess nucleoplasm of specific ... The nucleoplasm of histologically differentiated cells may be called ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"It may be said that metabolism is controlled by the nucleoplasm or chromatin, ... An insufficiency of nucleoplasm would render a cell inert and incapable of ..."

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