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	a. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. b. Blood plasma.
2.	Medicine. Cell-free, sterilized blood plasma, used in transfusions. 
3.	Protoplasm or cytoplasm. 
4.	The fluid portion of milk from which the curd has been separated by coagulation; whey. 
5.	Physics. An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. It is a phase of matter distinct from solids, liquids, and normal gases.