Corpuscle

Word CORPUSCLE
Character 9
Hyphenation cor pus cle
Pronunciations /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Corpuscle"

What do we mean by corpuscle?

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 noun

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, 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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Corpuscle

  • Antonyms for corpuscle
  • Corpuscle antonyms not found!

The word "corpuscle" in example sentences

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The first theory put forward by Sir J.J. Thomson in explanation of these facts, was that these kathode particles ( "corpuscles" as he termed them) were electrically charged portions of matter, much smaller than the smallest atom; and since the same sort of corpuscle is obtained whatever gas is contained in the vacuum tube, it is reasonable to conclude that the corpuscle is the common unit of all matter. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The corpuscle, which is perfectly visible to the naked eye (and which can be most easily demonstrated in the mesentery of a cat), consists of a number of lamellæ or capsules arranged more or less concentrically around a central clear space, in which the nerve fiber is contained. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The parallel is now plain to the reader: the corpuscle is the Yogi, bent on liberation: the heat which warms him is the Divine Love, centered in his heart, his initiations are the successive emancipations into higher and higher spaces, till he attains ❋ Claude Fayette Bragdon (1906)

My good friend and fellow "corpuscle" member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fr Paul Haffner, wrote a good book on the thought of Fr Jaki: "Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S.L. Jaki." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The trouble is that the analysis ” absurdly ” makes it seem as though when two things have one degree of brightness there could be a substantive question which of the two ” x or y ” it was ” as though a degree of brightness were some kind of corpuscle whose association with a thing made it bright (cf. Klagge and Nordmann, ❋ Proops, Ian (2007)

My bones will rob me blind, corpuscle by corpuscle. ❋ Matt Kang (2010)

It all starts with the photon, that little corpuscle of light. ❋ Peter Baksa (2011)

I'll stumble into something that takes me down a magic breadcrumb trail and it feels ecstatic and I know I'm onto something and then I can usually find satisfaction to some degree -- not entirely, ever, of course -- I'll know I've put my every corpuscle into it and I don't regret having done it. ❋ Dylan Brody (2011)

“Every corpuscle of every society in the history of this globe has religion at its core!” ❋ Tim Gunn (2010)

For example, two fire corpuscles could be transformed into a single air corpuscle, or one air corpuscle into two fire corpuscles, given that the tetrahedron has four faces and the octahedron eight ❋ Zeyl, Donald (2009)

But here's Ken Levine, who's known the former costar of Becker (where she played the ding-a-ling receptionist) since she was barely a corpuscle, singing her virtues and explaining how it takes a smart cookie to play a dumb cluck. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Naturally the Bible raises all manner of paradoxes such that between predestination and choice, but there any number of paradoxical truths in material existence that have to be equally held such as that between corpuscle and wave theory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Every corpuscle up and down the fish's left flank would welcome a turn. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And if the pressure of the aether, or any subtiler matter than the air, may unite, and hold fast together, the parts of a particle of air, as well as other bodies, yet it cannot make bonds for itself, and hold together the parts that make up every the least corpuscle of that materia subtilis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The post Blurbing Blurbage I could not in good conscience steal this, though every corpuscle in my body was screaming to do just that is a great bit from an established writer on how he narrows down the books he'd care to blurb. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)

Cross Reference for Corpuscle

What does corpuscle mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Book Name Author
The Way Down E-Book Danielle Stewart
Hard Hand E-Book Sierra Cartwright
Silenced Girls E-Book Roger Stelljes
Hailey's Haven E-Book Laura Scott
The Galathea Chronicles E-Book JJ Green
Best IOS App Reviews