plasmatic

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to (blood) plasma.

   “Since most plasmatic fractions are virus-inactivated, they seem to be somewhat safer than blood products that are not.”

   “The graft is nourished initially by plasmatic imbibition, or plasmatic circulation, a process whereby plasma is imbibed passively by capillary action into the exposed lumen of the graft's vessels.”

   “Because of the repeated reduced plasmatic coagulation test, haemostaseology specialists were involved.”

2. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to protoplasm.

   “Nevertheless, the determining causes cannot at present be precisely defined, and it is hardly probable that the plasmatic membrane is simply the direct expression of the physical surface tension, which is necessarily always present.”

   “They are small granules of plasmatic substance occurring at the junctions of the meshes of the alveolar protoplasm.”

   “Separation of plasmatic compartments from other plasmatic ones cannot be effected by a single biomembrane but only by at least two membranes, that is, by interposition of a nonplasmatic compartment.”

3. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to plasma (partially ionized gas and electrons).

   “[…] fluctuations of electron concentration within a fast electron stream when it penetrates the ionospheric plasma; such fluctuations, of the plasmatic oscillation type, may arise in the case of a double-stage instability.”

   “Plasmatic discharge comes from gasses leaving our bodies as opposed to the energy bands.”

   “All intelligences are based on ionic or plasmatic forms of life directly, and not on organic life, which is only a higher-level structure of life, built on top of plasmatic, ionic, molecular, and cellular forms of life.”

   “The sky returned to darkness, a scattering of white stars emitting their own plasmatic radiance once more.”

   “The receivers were eventually destroyed and the plasmatic life forms escaped into the atmosphere, taking the receivers' energy with them.”

4. (figuratively, not-comparable)Malleable or flowing like plasma.

   “Buckley's voice(s) ooze like plasma[…]forming a sort of honeycomb of vocal jouissance[…]Wilhelm Reich believed mysticism was a sublimated longing for orgasm's 'cosmic plasmatic sensations'. Buckley literally sculpted an entire song out of orgasm[…]”

   “Among the extraordinary features of the process of plasmatic modification, those are especially worthy of note that pertain to homogeneous terms of affection from which powers are subtracted.”

5. (not-comparable)Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.

   “This dual function should be no surprise, for, as Eisenstein argues of animated films featuring plasmatic metamorphosis It's natural to expect that such a strong tendency of the trransformation of stable forms into forms of mobility could not be confined solely to means of form: this tendency exceeds the boundaries of form and extends to subject and theme.”

   “From these points, we can construct a model for analysing how animation's 'plasmatic' capacity to shape and mould both existing and future (better or darker) worlds might be applied across deep ecological, posthuman and social-ecological perspectives:”

   “Plasmatic characters are most radically in evidence in the early cartoon shorts of Disney, but even in the relatively realist feature films, plasmatic moments and characters still occur, and may be significant when they do.”

   “The first of these is plasmatic in an obvious way; it suggests a delight in the impossible power of an ocean wave becoming something else.”