06839 IUPAC Gold Book - plasma 10.1351/goldbook.PT06839 PT06839 current 1 Fluid component of blood in which the blood cells and platelets are suspended. Synonym: blood plasma.Fluid component of semen produced by the accessory glands, the seminal vesicles, the prostate, and the bulbo-urethral glands.Cell substance outside the nucleus, i.e., the cytoplasm. nucleus https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/N04256 PAC, 2004, 76, 1033. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicokinetics (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)' on page 1065 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200476051033) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/PT06839/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/PT06839/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/PT06839/plain Citation: 'plasma' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.PT06839 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-10T00:49:00+00:00