Biol. [f. as prec. (by Schleiden) + BLASTEMA protoplasm. F. cytoblastème.] A name for the protoplasm from which the cell is produced.
1842. Baly, trans. Müller’s Physiol., II. 1643. Schwann has observed their development in the exterior of other cells in a structureless substance, the cytoblastema.
1882. Gilburt, in Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club, Ser. II. No. 1. 31. The substance in which the cells arose was named cell-germinating material or cytoblastema.
Hence Cytoblastemal, Cytoblastematous, Cytoblastemic, Cytoblastemous adjs.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat., V. 770. Cytoblastemal formations.
