2. the fluid portion of the blood, in which the formed elements (blood cells) are suspended. Plasma is to be distinguished from serum, which is plasma from which the fibrinogen has been separated in the process of clotting.
Full Definition of MANIFEST. transitive verb. : to make evident or certain by showing or displaying. â manÂ·iÂ·festÂ·er noun. See manifest defined for English-language learners. Their sadness was manifest in their faces. 2  His love for literature is manifest in his large library. 3  There was manifest confusion in the streets. 4  The argument, for all of its manifest inadequacies â¦ captured the national imagination and shaped subsequent religious discourse.
readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error. 2. Psychoanalysis. of or relating to conscious feelings, ideas, and impulses that contain repressed psychic material: the manifest content of a dream as opposed to the latent content that it conceals. verb (used with object)