BLOOD PLASMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood plasma mean? 

• BLOOD PLASMA (noun)
  The noun BLOOD PLASMA has 1 sense:

1. the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

  Familiarity information: BLOOD PLASMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD PLASMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

blood plasma; plasm; plasma

Hypernyms ("blood plasma" is a kind of...):

ECF; extracellular fluid (liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid)

Meronyms (substance of "blood plasma"):

plasma protein (any of the proteins in blood plasma)

gamma globulin; human gamma globulin (a plasma protein containing the immunoglobulins that are responsible for immune responses)

 Context examples 

In addition, mannitol elevates blood plasma osmolarity, resulting in enhanced flow of water from tissues into interstitial fluid and plasma.

(Mannitol, NCI Thesaurus)

Glycerin elevates the blood plasma osmolality thereby extracting water from tissues into interstitial fluid and plasma.

(Glycerin, NCI Thesaurus)

Increased levels of free metanephrine in patient blood plasma samples may be a diagnostic indicator for pheochromocytoma.

(Metanephrine, NCI Thesaurus)

Antioxidant levels are usually measured in blood plasma.

(Oxidative stress, NCI Dictionary)

The peripheral blood plasma cells comprise more than 20% of the peripheral blood white cells.

(Plasma Cell Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

A fibrillar protein present in blood plasma; it converts to fibrin during the process of blood clot formation.

(Fibrinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

The complement system is a proteolytic cascade in blood plasma and a mediator of innate immunity, a nonspecific defense mechanism against pathogens.

(Complement and Coagulation Cascade, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Albumin is the main protein in blood plasma.

(Albumin, NCI Thesaurus)

An animal sterol found in the body tissues (and blood plasma) of vertebrates.

(Cholesterol, NCI Thesaurus)

The investigators analyzed blood plasma from 17 people who had recovered from EVD.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)