plural of plasma protein

(biochemistry) A protein present in the blood plasma.

(medicine) The blood plasma of a person who has recovered from an infectious illness, which contains antibodies to the infectious disease factor (such as viruses). For convalescent plasma therapy, the plasma can be transfused into an ill victim of that disease as a treatment.

(medicine) Ellipsis of convalescent plasma therapy. Treatment of an infectious disease using convalescent plasma.

plural of plasma gemstone

plural of nuclear plasma

plural of plasma globe

A spherical plasma lamp.

(physics) A predicted state of matter, containing deconfined quarks and gluons, present in the very early universe (first millionth of a second), and recreated at extremely high energy densities, such as those in the collision of heavy atomic nuclei as speeds very close to the speed of light.

(physics) A kind of plasma accelerator that utilize an amplitude-modulated intense laser beam to excite a large amplitude plasma wave that propagates at near the speed of light with a longitudinal acceleration electric field.