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why is blood plasma called a plasma? |
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| Jun27-11, 04:27 AM | #1 |
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why is blood plasma called a plasma?
A plasma is a gas (or, I guess a liquid, at high enough pressure or.. cause of other properties..?) witch has its electrons separated from the rest of the atom, witch is now a ion. So it is a mixture of free electrons and ions.
Is blood plasma really this? I cannot find any information on this specific question anywhere. :( |
| Jun27-11, 04:31 AM | #2 |
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Nope, blood plasma has nothing to do with the ionized gas. It is just the same name.
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| Jun27-11, 04:34 AM | #3 |
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well. that is really unsatisfying.
But thanks.. Maybe a history of WHY it is called a plasma and misleading people like me? |
| Jun27-11, 04:48 AM | #4 |
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why is blood plasma called a plasma? |
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| Jun27-11, 06:31 AM | #6 |
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If I am to trust this site, it seems the biological version came first. The story looks made up but I couldn't find anything else regarding this.
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| Jun27-11, 06:43 AM | #8 |
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| Jun27-11, 08:12 AM | #9 |
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The results of my Google based researches:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none plasma 1712, "form, shape" (earlier plasm, 1620), from L.L. plasma, from Gk. plasma "something molded or created," from plassein "to mold," originally "to spread thin," from PIE *plath-yein, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (see plane (1)). Sense of "liquid part of blood" is from 1845; that of "ionized gas" is 1928. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plasma plas·ma noun 1. Anatomy, Physiology . the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements. Neither is it the only time physics has borrowed from biology - 'fission' is a term that followed the same path. |
| Jun27-11, 08:24 AM | #10 |
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Plasma is Greek for 'formative substance' - a general term, obviously picked up independently by both historical physicists and historical biologists. http://www.angelfire.com/de/nestsite/modbiogreek.html |
| Jun27-11, 08:31 AM | #11 |
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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=plasma http://www.pnas.org/content/14/8/627.full.pdf+html "We shall use the name plasma to describe this region containing balanced charges of ions and electrons." (from the above) I couldn't find the 1845 reference. |
| Jun27-11, 01:17 PM | #12 |
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| Jun27-11, 01:58 PM | #13 |
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| Jun27-11, 03:26 PM | #14 |
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You mean like fly (the insect), fly (like a bird), fly (as on pants), fly (as with flee), fly (as in flywheel), fly (as in the edge of a flag) and more? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fly Note the first two are "biological" for what it's worth. |
| Jun27-11, 03:40 PM | #15 |
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As if other languages were better. In Polish "droga" means "road", "dear" and "expensive".
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| Jun27-11, 04:06 PM | #16 |
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| Jun27-11, 05:12 PM | #17 |
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"and dubbed "plasma" by Irving Langmuir in 1928,[4] perhaps because it characteristic that the glowing discharge mold itself to any shape into which the tube is formed.[5]". Note the definition of 'plasma': 1712, "form, shape" (earlier plasm, 1620), from L.L. plasma, from Gk. plasma "something molded or created," from plassein "to mold," originally "to spread thin," from PIE *plath-yein, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (see plane (1)) I wonder if the OP bothered to look around... |
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