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1836 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 18 446 (note) In order to avoid confounding the plastic portion of the living blood with the solid products formed by coagulation, Dr. Schultz has proposed the introduction of the term blood plasma to represent the first.

1945 Daily Tel. 3 July Administering penicillin and blood plasma.

2004 Healthy Sept. 47/3 The blood plasma contains countless different chemical compounds, some of which can be used as markers of health.

1836 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 18 446 (note) By the process of coagulation, the plasma is separated into two portions, serum and fibrin or plastic lymph.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 230 Normal lymph consists of a colorless plasma and lymph-corpuscles.

1891 W. D. Halliburton Text-bk. Chem. Physiol. xv. 238 The globulin pre-existent in the blood plasma..may be termed plasma-globulin.

1927 M. Bodansky Introd. Physiol. Chem. vii. 168 Reduction of the plasma proteins by plasmapharesis..results in a condition of shock.

1969 E. Kelemen Physiopathol. & Therapy Human Blood Dis. i. 105 About 80–90% of plasma proteins, i.e. fibrinogen, albumin, and certain globulins, including most of the plasma coagulation factors, are formed in the liver.

1988 Holiday Which? May 124/2 There's a doctor available to administer the plasma.

2001 P. Caldwell Sleep Really Well (2003) xi. 228 Histamine..opens up tiny blood vessels to let more blood flow to an area that needs it, and also lets these tiny vessels leak plasma..into surrounding cells.