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plasma   (TTS Sound)

The noun plasma has 3 senses

• plasma, plasm, blood plasma -- (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)


• plasma -- (a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone)


• plasma -- ((physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma")