Phrase guide

blood plasma

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The clear fluid portion of blood in which the blood cells are suspended.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: hematology, medicine, sciences

Examples

  • Holonym: blood
  • Meronyms: serum, blood serum, clotting factors

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: albumen

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: plasma, plasm

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: extracellular fluid, ECF

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bloedplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Arabic: بلازما الدم — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Armenian: արյան պլազմա (aryan plazma) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Basque: odol-plasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Belarusian: плазма крыві (plazma kryvi) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Bengali: রক্তরস (roktoroś) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Bulgarian: кръвна плазма (krǎvna plazma) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Catalan: plasma sanguini — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Hakka Chinese: hiet-chiông — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血浆 (xuèjiāng) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Wu Chinese: 血浆 — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Czech: krevní plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Danish: blodplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Dutch: bloedplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Esperanto: sangoplasmo — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Estonian: vereplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Finnish: veriplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Finnish: verineste — clear fluid portion of blood
  • French: plasma sanguin — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Galician: plasma sanguíneo — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Georgian: სისხლის პლაზმა (sisxlis ṗlazma) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • German: Blutplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Greek: πλάσμα αίματος (plásma aímatos) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Hebrew: פלזמה — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Hindi: प्लाविका (plāvikā) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Hungarian: vérplazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Icelandic: blóðvökvi — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Indonesian: plasma darah — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Interlingua: plasma del sanguine — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Irish: plasma fola — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Irish: fuilphlasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Italian: plasma sanguigno — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Japanese: 血漿 (kesshō) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Javanese: plasma getih — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Kazakh: қан плазмасы (qan plazmasy) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Korean: 혈장 (hyeoljang) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Central Kurdish: پلازمای خوێن (plazmay xwên) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Northern Kurdish: plazmaya xwînê — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Latin: plasma sanguineum — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Latvian: asins plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Lithuanian: kraujo plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Macedonian: крвна плазма (krvna plazma) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Malay: plasma darah — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Malayalam: രക്ത പ്ലാസ്മ (rakta plāsma) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Marathi: रक्तातील प्लाझ्मा (raktātīl plājhmā) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Moksha: веронь плазмась (veroń plazmaś) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Mongolian: цусны сийвэн (cusny siiven) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Norwegian: blodplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Persian: پلاسمای خون — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Polish: osocze — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Polish: osocze krwi — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Portuguese: plasma sanguíneo — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Romanian: plasmă — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Russian: плазма крови (plazma krovi) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Serbo-Croatian: krvna plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Serbo-Croatian: крвна плазма — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Slovak: krvná plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Slovene: krvna plazma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Spanish: plasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Sundanese: plasma getih — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Swedish: blodplasma — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Tamil: குருதி நீர்மம் (kuruti nīrmam) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Telugu: బ్లడ్ ప్లాస్మా (blaḍ plāsmā) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Thai: น้ําเลือด — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Turkish: kan plazması — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Ukrainian: плазма крові (plazma krovi) — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Vietnamese: huyết tương — clear fluid portion of blood
  • Welsh: plasma gwaed — clear fluid portion of blood