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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



... to him there was no one else could fill it so well. Claudius had the felicity to be married four times, and left several sons, but Fate had it that he should be followed by Nero, his stepson, who called himself "Caesar," yet in whose veins there leaped not a single Caesarean corpuscle. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard

... of its development, a white blood corpuscle is seen to modify by division; but in fully-developed blood such division is never seen. It is probable that colourless white corpuscles are given to the adult blood by the lymphatic glands. Every irritation of ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... is called the aorta. Soon after it leaves the heart the aorta begins to send out branches to various organs. These divide in the tissues again and again until they become so small that only one corpuscle can pass through at a time, as shown in the ...
— First Book in Physiology and Hygiene • J.H. Kellogg

... observable, is varied. It may cause the corpuscles to run too closely together, and to adhere in rolls; it may modify their outline, making the clear-defined, smooth, outer edge irregular or crenate, or even starlike; it may change the round corpuscle into the oval form, or, in very extreme cases, it may produce what I may call a truncated form of corpuscles, in which the change is so great that if we did not trace it through all its stages, we should be puzzled to know whether the object looked at were indeed a blood-cell. All ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur

... has been introduced into the blood and trace its development there. At first it is slender and rod-like in shape. It has some power of movement in the blood-plasm. Very soon it attacks one of the red blood-corpuscles and gradually pierces its way through the wall and into the corpuscle substance (Fig. 99); here it becomes more amoeboid and continues to move about, feeding all the time on the corpuscle substance, gradually destroying the whole cell. As the parasite feeds and grows there is deposited within ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane



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



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