Protoplasm

from Websters, 1986, page 947:

• prot and proto = first, beginning AND
• plasm = something molded (1747). aka plasma.
• protoplasm = protoplasma: the organized colloidal complex of organic and inorganic substances (as proteins and water) that constitutes the living nucleus, cytoplasm, plastids, and mitochondria of the cell and is regarded as the only form of matter in which the vital phenomena are manifested (1848).

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