cytoplasm

English

Alternative forms

• cytioplasm (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zytoplasma, Cytoplasma. Equivalent to cyto- (“cell”) +‎ -plasm (“contents of a cell”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtəʊˌplæzəm/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪtoʊˌplæzəm/, [ˈsaɪɾoʊˌplæzəm]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑetəʉˌplæzəm/, [ˈsɑeɾəʉˌplæzəm]

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

• cytoplasmatic
• cytoplasmic
• intracytoplasm
• nucleocytoplasm

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
• East Frisian Low German: tsüütooplasmó n
• Esperanto: citoplasmo, ĉelplasmo
• Finnish: solulima (fi), sytoplasma (fi)
• French: cytoplasme (fr) m
• Galician: citoplasma (gl) 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 (ko) (sepojil)
• Māori: 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