What it means
The root in words about blood plasma, such as plasmapheresis (removing plasma from the blood and returning the cells). As the ending -plasm it means formed substance: cytoplasm is the material inside a cell, and a neoplasm is a new growth, a tumor.
At a glance
| Also written | plasmo-, plasm- |
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Related terms
cyt/o
A word part that means cell.