protoplasm

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In Darwin’s day scientists could assume that cells contained only a kind of undifferentiated protoplasm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“The thought was mesmerizing that that brain represented the most complex mass of protoplasm on this earth and, perhaps, in our galaxy.”

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2017

From there it wasn’t such a leap to guess that protoplasm might, in certain extraordinary moments, coalesce and be projected from the body.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

Intensities this great can damage individual cells, variously causing their protoplasm to stream inside them, altering their permeability, or rupturing their walls through cavitation.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

She probably thinks I'm turning myself into a gob of protoplasm or something.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements