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Definition of Plastids
1. plastid [n] - See also: plastid
Medical Definition of Plastids
1. Self-replicating cytoplasmic organelles of plant and algal cells that contain pigments and may synthesise and accumulate various substances. Plastids are used in phylogenetic studies. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plastids
Literary usage of Plastids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"POSED OF LARGE plastids. FROM THE INTERMUSCULAR TISSUE OP THE FOREARM OP A WOMAN.
... A delicate fibrous reticulum holds varying numbers of plastids, ..."
2. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"plastids are differentiated portions of the protoplasm, as von Mohl long ago
pointed out, ... plastids may be conveniently classified on the basis of ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"As the tells grow, the plastids increase in size, and they may develop chlorophyll,
... In cells which are nbt exposed to the light the plastids remain ..."
4. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"In the young cells of the growing-point of a stem, or in young spores, the plastids
appear as minute granules, usually in the vicinity of the nucleus. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"plastids are denser than the surrounding protoplasm and the interior is denser
... 1), but many plants have very striking plastids, as in case of the alga, ..."
6. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Its siib-varieties are: (a) Globo-myeloma, composed of large plastids (large
round- cell ... A delicate fibrous reticulum holds varying numbers of plastids, ..."
7. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"(c) plastids.—In addition to the basic substances making up the fluid ...
The plastids that are formed in a great many protozoa, especially in those types ..."
8. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"The Cell Theory.—The Plastid Theory.—plastids or Structural-Units. ... Four Different
Kinds of plastids. IN our considerations hitherto we have endeavoured ..."
9. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"POSED OF LARGE plastids. FROM THE INTERMUSCULAR TISSUE OP THE FOREARM OP A WOMAN.
... A delicate fibrous reticulum holds varying numbers of plastids, ..."
10. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"plastids are differentiated portions of the protoplasm, as von Mohl long ago
pointed out, ... plastids may be conveniently classified on the basis of ..."
11. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"As the tells grow, the plastids increase in size, and they may develop chlorophyll,
... In cells which are nbt exposed to the light the plastids remain ..."
12. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"In the young cells of the growing-point of a stem, or in young spores, the plastids
appear as minute granules, usually in the vicinity of the nucleus. ..."
13. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"plastids are denser than the surrounding protoplasm and the interior is denser
... 1), but many plants have very striking plastids, as in case of the alga, ..."
14. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Its siib-varieties are: (a) Globo-myeloma, composed of large plastids (large
round- cell ... A delicate fibrous reticulum holds varying numbers of plastids, ..."
15. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"(c) plastids.—In addition to the basic substances making up the fluid ...
The plastids that are formed in a great many protozoa, especially in those types ..."
16. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"The Cell Theory.—The Plastid Theory.—plastids or Structural-Units. ... Four Different
Kinds of plastids. IN our considerations hitherto we have endeavoured ..."
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