Definitions for "Protoplasm"
The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
The viscid, translucid, polyphasic colloid with water as the continuous phase that makes up the essential material of all plat and animal cells. It is composed mainly of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and inorganic salts. The protoplasm surrounding the nucleus is known as the cytoplasm and that composing the nucleus is the nucleoplasm.
The protoplasm is the entire contents of the cell inside the plasmalemma ( cell membrane).