Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plasma

3 senses of plasma

Sense 1
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)
       => extracellular fluid, ECF -- (liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid; "the body normally has about 15 quarts of extracellular fluid")

Sense 2
plasma -- (a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone)
       => chalcedony, calcedony -- (a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz)

Sense 3
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")
       => state of matter, state -- ((chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice")