noun
- Plural of bioplasm; living protoplasm or the fundamental substance of living cells.
Usage: technical; biology; somewhat archaic; modern usage favors 'protoplasm' or 'cytoplasm'
Examples
- Early biologists studied bioplasms under the microscope to understand cell structure.
- The bioplasms of different organisms showed remarkable similarities in composition.
- Nineteenth-century scientists believed bioplasms were the seat of all life processes.
- Modern cell biology has largely replaced the term bioplasms with more precise terms like cytoplasm and protoplasm.