Relating to or consisting of chromoplasm; describing stainable protoplasm in cells.
Adjective form of chromoplasm, combining Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'plasma' (protoplasm). Used in older histological and cell biological literature.
The term 'chromoplasmic' reveals how scientists of the 1800s thought about cells—they defined cellular parts by how they reacted to stains, not by what they actually do.
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