Associations to the word «Ectoplasm»

Wiktionary

ECTOPLASM, noun. (parapsychology) The visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.
ECTOPLASM, noun. (parapsychology) An immaterial or ethereal substance, especially the transparent corporeal presence of a spirit or ghost.
ECTOPLASM, noun. (cytology) The outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm.

Dictionary definition

ECTOPLASM, noun. (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance.
ECTOPLASM, noun. The outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats