Plasma
noun
The liquid part of blood or lymph.
The doctor took a sample of my blood plasma for testing.
Often appears as...
- blood plasma
- plasma donation
noun
A gas in which atoms are ionized, meaning they have positive or negative charge.
Lightning is plasma in action.
Often appears as...
- plasma gas
- plasma physics
noun
A type of visual display used in televisions.
He bought a 50 inch Plasma TV for his living room.
Often appears as...
- plasma screen
- plasma tv
noun
A clear, yellowish fluid that remains from blood plasma after clotting factors have been removed.
Plasma can be separated from the blood for medical purposes.
Often appears as...
- blood plasma
- plasma separation
noun
The liquid part of blood or lymph.
The doctor took a sample of my blood plasma for testing.
Often appears as...
- blood plasma
- plasma donation
noun
A gas in which atoms are ionized, meaning they have positive or negative charge.
Lightning is plasma in action.
Often appears as...
- plasma gas
- plasma physics
noun
A type of visual display used in televisions.
He bought a 50 inch Plasma TV for his living room.
Often appears as...
- plasma screen
- plasma tv
noun
A clear, yellowish fluid that remains from blood plasma after clotting factors have been removed.
Plasma can be separated from the blood for medical purposes.
Often appears as...
- blood plasma
- plasma separation
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Pro Tip 1/2Life-saving Component
Plasma in medicine refers to a crucial part of blood that can be donated to save lives.
She regularly donates her blood plasma to help patients in critical conditions.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Blood-related
In medical contexts, ensure 'plasma' isn't confused with 'plasma TVs' or 'plasma physics'.
The lab technician explained how plasma is separated for therapeutic uses, not to be mistaken with other uses of the word.
Pro Tip 1/2Life-saving Component
Plasma in medicine refers to a crucial part of blood that can be donated to save lives.
She regularly donates her blood plasma to help patients in critical conditions.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Blood-related
In medical contexts, ensure 'plasma' isn't confused with 'plasma TVs' or 'plasma physics'.
The lab technician explained how plasma is separated for therapeutic uses, not to be mistaken with other uses of the word.
Pro Tip 1/2Life-saving Component
Plasma in medicine refers to a crucial part of blood that can be donated to save lives.
She regularly donates her blood plasma to help patients in critical conditions.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Blood-related
In medical contexts, ensure 'plasma' isn't confused with 'plasma TVs' or 'plasma physics'.
The lab technician explained how plasma is separated for therapeutic uses, not to be mistaken with other uses of the word.
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What does the liver do?...
This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant,
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How do you know if you...
Immunoassays are especially important when it comes to retroactively diagnosing people who were infected but went untested. And there’s exciting potential for those who have developed immunity to a in some cases, their blood plasma could be used as treatment in people who are currently fighting it.
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How do we separate the...
transforming what was once undrinkable into a life saver. Meanwhile in the medical world, blood tests are a vital tool for evaluating a person's health, but doctors typically can't examine blood samples until they've separated the solid blood cells from the liquid plasma they're dissolved in.
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The Northern Lights...
of what's known as a plasma soup of electrically charged particles now some of those particles are moving around so fast that they can escape then they stream away in what's known as the solar wind they reach the earth traveling at a few hundred kilometers per second and if
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Bill Gates: The next...
There was no one there to look at treatment approaches. No one to look at the diagnostics. No one to figure out what tools should be used. As an example, we could have taken the blood of survivors, processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them.
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Solid, liquid, gas and …...
it doesn't look or behave any differently. And with the exception of a compass or other magnetic object, we rarely see matter respond to a magnetic field. But put a plasma in an electric field or magnetic field, and you'll get a very different reaction.
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How young blood might...
And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable.
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Sun 101 PIPE National...
Called the heliosphere this force field protects the planets from harmful cosmic radiation It's caused by the sun's plasma pushing electrically charged particles toward the Stars poles This process turns the Sun into a giant magnet
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The making of cosmic...
matter was in the form of plasma photons protons and electrons were all together in this cosmic soup photons and electrons were interacting so that the universe was opaque for much the same reason that you can't see through the
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What's so sexy about...
And that night I was working and working on an elusive proof, which was incomplete. It was all about understanding the paradoxical stability property of plasmas, which are a crowd of electrons. In the perfect world of plasma,
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What does the liver do?...
This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant,
Video examples
How do you know if you...
Immunoassays are especially important when it comes to retroactively diagnosing people who were infected but went untested. And there’s exciting potential for those who have developed immunity to a in some cases, their blood plasma could be used as treatment in people who are currently fighting it.
Video examples
How do we separate the...
transforming what was once undrinkable into a life saver. Meanwhile in the medical world, blood tests are a vital tool for evaluating a person's health, but doctors typically can't examine blood samples until they've separated the solid blood cells from the liquid plasma they're dissolved in.
Video examples
The Northern Lights...
of what's known as a plasma soup of electrically charged particles now some of those particles are moving around so fast that they can escape then they stream away in what's known as the solar wind they reach the earth traveling at a few hundred kilometers per second and if
Video examples
Bill Gates: The next...
There was no one there to look at treatment approaches. No one to look at the diagnostics. No one to figure out what tools should be used. As an example, we could have taken the blood of survivors, processed it, and put that plasma back in people to protect them.
Video examples
Solid, liquid, gas and …...
it doesn't look or behave any differently. And with the exception of a compass or other magnetic object, we rarely see matter respond to a magnetic field. But put a plasma in an electric field or magnetic field, and you'll get a very different reaction.
Video examples
How young blood might...
And it also suggests that there is something not only in young mouse plasma, but in young human plasma that has the capacity to help this old brain. So to summarize, we find the old mouse, and its brain in particular, are malleable.
Video examples
Sun 101 PIPE National...
Called the heliosphere this force field protects the planets from harmful cosmic radiation It's caused by the sun's plasma pushing electrically charged particles toward the Stars poles This process turns the Sun into a giant magnet
Video examples
The making of cosmic...
matter was in the form of plasma photons protons and electrons were all together in this cosmic soup photons and electrons were interacting so that the universe was opaque for much the same reason that you can't see through the
Video examples
What's so sexy about...
And that night I was working and working on an elusive proof, which was incomplete. It was all about understanding the paradoxical stability property of plasmas, which are a crowd of electrons. In the perfect world of plasma,
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David Grinspoon
American Scientist
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
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Paul Nassif
Lebanese Celebrity
You take a tube of the patient's blood, extracting platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, from it. It's yellow in color, but it does all kinds of good things for the body: It speeds up healing, fills out the face. I spray it into wounds and use it in rhinoplasty.
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Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian Writer
I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They've got the same amount of sodium, too.
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Gerry Harvey
Australian Businessman
Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.
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Michael Mann
Director
I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.
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Antony Hewish
British Scientist
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
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Paul D. Boyer
American Scientist
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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David Grinspoon
American Scientist
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?
Quote examples
Paul Nassif
Lebanese Celebrity
You take a tube of the patient's blood, extracting platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, from it. It's yellow in color, but it does all kinds of good things for the body: It speeds up healing, fills out the face. I spray it into wounds and use it in rhinoplasty.
Quote examples
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian Writer
I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They've got the same amount of sodium, too.
Quote examples
Gerry Harvey
Australian Businessman
Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.
Quote examples
Michael Mann
Director
I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.
Quote examples
Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.
Quote examples
Antony Hewish
British Scientist
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
Quote examples
Paul D. Boyer
American Scientist
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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