Plasma

Syn plasm
 * 1) the fluid (noncellular) portion of the circulating blood, as distinguished from the serum obtained after coagulation (the fluid portion of coagulated blood is called serum). blood plasma contains water, electrolytes, albumin, immunoglobulins, coagulation factors, etc. Syn blood plasma
 * 2) the fluid portion of the lymph
 * 3) a “fourth state of matter” in which, owing to elevated temperature (ca. 106 °C), atoms have broken down to form free electrons and more or less stripped nuclei; produced in the laboratory in connection with hydrogen fusion (thermonuclear) research