plasmatic

From Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “anything formed or molded”) (genitive πλάσματος (plásmatos)) +‎ -ic.

plasmatic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to (blood) plasma.
   • 2008, Petra Seeber, Aryeh Shander, Basics of Blood Management, page 279:

     Since most plasmatic fractions are virus-inactivated, they seem to be somewhat safer than blood products that are not.

   • 2009, Ted S. Stashak, Christine Theoret, Equine Wound Management, page 510:

     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.

   • 2021, Zsuzsa Bagoly, Daniel Behme, Johannes Kaesmacher, Hemostasis and Stroke, page 74:

     Because of the repeated reduced plasmatic coagulation test, haemostaseology specialists were involved.

2. Of or pertaining to protoplasm.
   • 1900, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Alfred James Ewart, The Physiology of Plants, page 109:

     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.

   • 1914, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Roland Thaxter, Vernon Herbert Blackman, Annals of Botany - Volume 28, page 438:

     They are small granules of plasmatic substance occurring at the junctions of the meshes of the alveolar protoplasm.

   • 2012, H.-D. Behnke, K. Esser, J. W. Kadereit, Progress in Botany, page 27:

     Separation of plasmatic compartments from other plasmatic ones cannot be effected by a single biomembrane but only by at least two membranes, that is, by interposition of a nonplasmatic compartment.

3. Of or pertaining to plasma (partially ionized gas and electrons).
   • 1970, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Ponomarev, Evgeniĭ Fedorovich Vershinin, Studies of Aurorae and Upper Atmosphere by Radiophysical Methods, page 12:

     […] 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.

   • 2010, Rev. Kenneth D Klaman, Following the Light: A Guide in Practical Theology, page 91:

     Plasmatic discharge comes from gasses leaving our bodies as opposed to the energy bands.

   • 2015, Valentin Matcas, Life:

     All intelligences are based on ionic or plasmatic forms of life directly, and not on organic life, which is only a higher-level structure of life, built on top of plasmatic, ionic, molecular, and cellular forms of life.

   • 2019, Tiffany Francis-Baker, Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night:

     The sky returned to darkness, a scattering of white stars emitting their own plasmatic radiance once more.

   • 2020, Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth, page 223:

     The receivers were eventually destroyed and the plasmatic life forms escaped into the atmosphere, taking the receivers' energy with them.

4. (figurative) Malleable or flowing like plasma.

   Synonym: plasmatical

   • 1996, Simon Reynolds, Joy Press, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll, page 187:

     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 […]

   • 2006, François Viète, T. Richard Witmer, The Analytic Art, page 181:

     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.

   • 2009, Justine McGill, “Logic of a War-Crimes Trial: the Case of Radovan Karadzic”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 357:

     Vesovic says his basic feeling about his former friend [sc. Karadzic] was ‘that you can mould him into what you need, that he didn't have [any] moral fibre, or even a mental strength, that he was kind of plasma, that he was a plasmatic being.’ Is the International Tribunal in the process of moulding this plasmatic being into yet another form, one that can support a contemporary set of desires to attribute super-human capacities to him, and thereby avoid coming into contact with a more mundane, but also more complex and demanding, reality?

5. (film, more specifically) Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.
   • 2015, Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, Art Simon, American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, page 364:

     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 exceeds the boundaries of form and extends to subject and theme.

   • 2015, John Parham, Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction:

     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:

   • 2017, Kevin J. Donnelly, Contemporary Musical Film:

     Plasmatic characters are most radically in evidence in the early cartoon shorts of Disney, but even in the relatively realist feature films, plasmatic moments and characters still occur, and may be significant when they do.

   • 2019, Ryan Pierson, Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, page 35:

     The first of these is plasmatic in an obvious way; it suggests a delight in the impossible power of an ocean wave becoming something else.

Borrowed from French plasmatique. Equivalent to plasmă +‎ -atic.

plasmatic m or n (feminine singular plasmatică, masculine plural plasmatici, feminine and neuter plural plasmatice)

1. plasmatic