Noun

• S: (n) 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)
• S: (n) plasma (a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone)
• S: (n) 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"