ovoplasma

English

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Etymology

From ovo- +‎ plasma.

Noun

ovoplasma (uncountable)

egg yolk
The ovoplasma was clear and free of detritus.
- 1966, D. D. Romashov, V. N. Belyayeva, "The Radiosensitivity of Loach (Misgurnus Fossilis L) Ovicells", in Genetics, U. S. Department of Commerce, No. 4, 1965, USSR (6 May 1966), p. 152:
  ...the secondary rise in damage is related to the effect of high radiation doses on ovoplasma.
- 1986, Comptes rendus de l'Académie bulgare des sciences: sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Presses de l'Académie des Sciences, Vol. 39, p. 148:
  Pig oocyte fragments, on which can be seen ZP, part of the ovoplasma and part of the follicle cells lying outside.
- 2002, Agnes Christine Gundersen, Reproduction of West-Nordic Greenland Halibut: Studies Reflecting on Maturity, Fecundity, Spawning and TEP, Nordic Council of Ministers, p. 53:
  Internal Zona Radiata (ZR) is not broken down and ZR has not sunk into the ovoplasma. Ovoplasma is frequently discoloured, and organization of organelles (e. g. yolk granules) is not symmetrical.
- 2008, Ole Döring, "Exploring the Meaning of 'Good' in Chinese Bioethics", in The Book of Mencius and Its Reception in China and Beyond, Junjie Huang, Gregor Paul, Heiner Roetz, eds., Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 198:
  This imperative of purity has become a regulatory force in practice, as can be seen from the prohibition on nuclear transfer or ovoplasma transplantation in reproductive medicine, which was mentioned above.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ovoplasma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)