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(spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance

the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm

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Her photograms index these strange vessels as otherworldly shapes, warped by filters and rendered nearly ectoplasmic. Positioned on tabletops, where they are clustered like votive offerings in intricate display vignettes, they tempt the seismic gods.
During neuronal development thin dendritic ectoplasmic pseudopods or filopodia are programmed to shield actually stable dendritic spines [36] and are determinant in the establishment of neural circuits in time [37].
I'm sure even the spirits and ghosts she said she could see in the house would've been pushing the planchette to spell MOVE were there a Ouija board set up to receive their ectoplasmic email.
It's up to them to save the city from this ectoplasmic infestation.
When he's having nice dreams, Mark and Jessie's home is filled with Disney-looking butterflies and realistic visions of their son Sean; when Cody's gripped by dark thoughts, however, his nightmares are personified in a skeletal figure called 'Canker Man', who wraps his victims in a kind of ectoplasmic cling-film.
Ultimately, it proves to be one of those horror movies carefully aligned to absolve any potential audience guilt by ensuring that its victims deserve their punishment; before each teenager meets their ectoplasmic demise, their moral failings are laid out in no uncertain terms.
"Formin 1 regulates ectoplasmic specialization in the rat testis through its actin nucleation and bundling activity," Endocrinology 156(8): 2969-2983.
The egg white that slid down his leg like a damning ectoplasmic placenta, Stanford writes, "stayed with me, // Mark of the beast, birth, and trade." Elsewhere, in "Crossing the Fork on a One-Lane Bridge with No Lights," the manuscript's titular beast makes another appearance ("The panther is down from the cliffs / Crazy drunk on the young blood in the valley."), reflecting Grendel's descent from his cave to conduct murderous rampages on the Danes in Hrothgar's mead hall.
We also get a lovestruck boy next door (Ashton Moio) who makes goo-goo eyes with Quinn (and gets dagger glances back from Dad), and, standing in for the wacky upstairs neighbor, an ectoplasmic emphysema patient (Michael Reid MacKay) whose spirit failed to vacate the premises along with his body.
Even its title is appropriately ectoplasmic, and could reference the Holy Spirit, or a tongue-in-cheek variation bearing the same first word; or, as I found when I looked through the periodic table of elements and discovered Hs as the symbol for Hassium, a silvery substance only produced a few times through nuclear reaction in tiny, almost unobservable quantities, with an incredibly short life.
Identification and characterization of espin, an actin-binding protein localized to the F-actin-rich junctional plaques of Sertoli cell ectoplasmic specializations.
RAB13 participates in ectoplasmic specialization dynamics in the rat testis.
Mruk et al., "The apical ectoplasmic specialization-blood-testis barrier functional axis is a novel target for male contraception," Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol.