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Corpuscle

noun
1.
(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything.  Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck.
2.
Either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets.  Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle.



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"Corpuscle" Quotes from Famous Books



... thus active is a mass of protoplasm, and its activity differs in detail, rather than in principle, from that of the protoplasm of the nettle. Under sundry circumstances the corpuscle dies and becomes distended into a round mass, in the midst of which is seen a smaller spherical body, which existed, but was more or less hidden, in the living corpuscle, and is called its nucleus. Corpuscles of essentially similar structure are to be found in ...
— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley



Words linked to "Corpuscle" :   blood cell, WBC, Pacinian corpuscle, packed cells, material, white corpuscle, leukocyte, grinding, identification particle, white blood cell, chylomicron, flyspeck, corpuscular, red blood cell, leucocyte, mote, somatic cell, erythrocyte, grain, white cell, stuff, RBC, particle, blood, vegetative cell



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