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noun. An unattached body cell, such as a blood or lymph cell.

noun. A rounded globular mass of cells, such as the pressure receptor on certain nerve endings.

noun. A discrete particle, such as a photon or an electron.

noun. A minute globular particle.

noun. In electricity, a body smaller than an atom, assumed to explain the phenomena of electric discharges in gases, and of radioactivity.

noun. A minute particle, molecule, or atom of matter.

noun. In zoology and anatomy, some small body regarded by itself and characterized by a qualifying term: usually a body of microscopic size; a cell. See phrases below.

noun. In botany, specifically, one of several large cells within the endosperm and near the summit of the embryo sac in gymnosperms, from which after fertilization an embryo is developed: so named by R. Brown.

noun. Same as corposant.

noun. Of the kidney, small globular masses of dark-red color, found in the cortical substance of the organ, consisting of a central glomerulus of blood-vessels (the Malpighian tuft), and of a membranous capsule which is the beginning of a uriniferous tubule.

noun. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

noun. A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood.

noun. An electron.

noun. in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1/3500 to 1/3200 of an inch in diameter and about 1/12400 of an inch thick. They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid hæmoglobin and other matters. In most mammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless.

noun. rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about 1/2500 of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles.

noun. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

noun. A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.

noun. either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets

noun. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

"There are others, of rare occurrence in chains, which have a clear corpuscle, that is to say, a portion more refractive than other parts of the segments, at one of their extremities."

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