cytoplasm

cytoplasm

English

Alternative forms

• cytioplasm (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zytoplasma, Cytoplasma. Equivalent to cyto- +‎ plasm.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəʊˌplæzəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtoʊˌplæzəm/

Noun

cytoplasm (usually uncountable, plural cytoplasms)

1. (cytology) The contents of a cell except for the nucleus. It includes cytosol, organelles, vesicles, and the cytoskeleton.

Derived terms

• cytoplasmic
• cytoplasmatic
• intracytoplasm

Translations

contents of a cell excluding the nucleus

Catalan: citoplasma m Chinese: Mandarin: 細胞質／细胞质 (zh) (xìbāozhì) Czech: cytoplazma (cs) f Dutch: cytoplasma (nl) n Esperanto: citoplasmo, ĉelplasmo Finnish: solulima (fi), sytoplasma (fi) French: cytoplasme (fr) m Galician: citoplasma m German: Zytoplasma (de) n Greek: κυτταρόπλασμα (el) n (kyttaróplasma) Hungarian: citoplazma (hu) Icelandic: umfrymi n Ido: citoplasmo (io) Indonesian: sitoplasma (id) Italian: citoplasma (it) m Japanese: 細胞質 (ja) (さいぼうしつ, saibōshitsu) Korean: 세포질 (sepojil) Maori: waitepe Occitan: citoplasma m Polish: cytoplazma (pl) f Portuguese: citoplasma (pt) m Romanian: citoplasmă (ro) f Russian: цитопла́зма (ru) f (citoplázma) Serbo-Croatian: citoplàzma (sh) f, цитоплазма f Spanish: citoplasma (es) m Swedish: cytoplasma (sv) c Tagalog: silidkaphay

See also

• protoplasm