bioplastic

1. (biology, dated) Of or relating to bioplasts and bioplasm.Examples: "Near-synonym: bioplasmic"; "The smooth or organic involuntary muscular fibres are single bioplastic elements, long so-called cells, each with a nucleus situated about the middle. They contain microsomata, and in disease deposits of degeneration resembling those of the striated muscle […] The smooth muscular fibres require yet to be studied more closely, which is a matter of some difficulty, as they cannot easily be isolated. ¶ CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE BLOOD (HEMOPLASM). The blood, like the brain and muscles, must be considered as a great aggregate of bioplastic centres, the corpuscles, and of bioplastic matter, the living serum; as such it is an organ, but unlike other organs, which are fixed, it is in a state of constant movement. Morphologically the walls of the blood-vessels are the limiting membrane of this aggregate hemoplasm, though when fully developed for their ubiquitous function they do not any longer stand in any chemical or histological relation to their contents. The living serum may therefore be considered only in a morphological sense as the enchylema of the blood-vessels considered as stroma. But the corpuscles fully preserve their bioplastic structure, such as we have defined it in the first chapter."; "Profounder yet is the characteristic of personality that is attributed to spiritualistic life. However defined the word, whether it is regarded as the sum of moral powers, or the equipment of conscious being, one thing is certain, it belongs not to bioplasm. The palm tree is not a person; the lizard wears not the sign of personality; the whale is not a person; the kangaroo claims not the lineage of a person. Personality marks the man; it makes man what he is. By this is he separated from the bioplastic realm and enters the divine. This is not fiction, or a term of flattery, or the exclamation of self-praise. Personality is man's inheritance from God, and he has the right to shout over it. A complete philosophy will not fail to attempt to account for soul-life as it has attempted to account for the non-living and the living worlds about us. Evidently the soul is not the product of an evolutionary force. As the living does not emerge from the non-living, so the spiritual does not issue from the bioplastic. Higher forms of life were never produced by lower, although chronologically the relation between them may be that of antecedent and consequent. The abyss between different kinds of life is not crossed by an evolutionary bridge. The chain of life does not extend from bioplasm to soul."datednot-comparable