plasmatic

Adjective

plasmatic (not comparable)

1. 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.2008, Petra Seeber, Aryeh Shander, Basics of Blood Management, page 279
   • 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.2009, Ted S. Stashak, Christine Theoret, Equine Wound Management, page 510
2. 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.1900, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Alfred James Ewart, The Physiology of Plants, page 109
   • They are small granules of plasmatic substance occurring at the junctions of the meshes of the alveolar protoplasm.1914, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, Annals of Botany - Volume 28, page 438
3. 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.1970, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Ponomarev, Evgeniĭ Fedorovich Vershinin, Studies of Aurorae and Upper Atmosphere by Radiophysical Methods, page 12
   • Plasmatic discharge comes from gasses leaving our bodies as opposed to the energy bands.2010, Rev. Kenneth D Klaman, Following the Light: A Guide in Practical Theology, page 91
4. (figuratively) 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[…]1996, Simon Reynolds, Joy Press, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll, page 187
   • 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.2006, François Viète, T. Richard Witmer, The Analytic Art, page 181

   Synonyms:

   plasmatical

5. (more specifically) 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...2015, Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, Art Simon, American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, page 364
   • 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:2015, John Parham, Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction