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corpuscle

[ UK /kˈɔːpʌskə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
  2. either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets

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  • Arranged round these vessels are circles of the formative elements, the bone corpuscles or osteoblasts (b.c.) each embedded in bony matrix in a little bed, the lacuna, and communicating one with another by fine processes through canaliculi in the matrix, which processes are only to be seen clearly in decalcified bone (See Section 70). Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • As a result of this decomposition very minute bodies, to which the name corpuscles has been given, are projected from the radium atom with exceedingly great velocity. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
  • Based on his studies of a frog's tongue, Waller made important observations on diapedesis of leukocytes and reported that pus originated from ‘the colourless of spherical corpuscles from the capillaries.’
  • The cells are called connective-tissue corpuscles, cartilage cells, and bone corpuscles, according to the tissues in which they occur. A Practical Physiology
  • There is not a corpuscle to spare between her lean, muscular frame and her black Diesel pants.
  • The Separation efficiency of red blood cell, white corpuscle and blood platelet from pig blood was investigated by chromatographic columns of four celluloses and two ion-exchange resins.
  • There is a different level of blood clotting in patents who are suffering from chron- ic renal corpuscle nephritis. And the increase of blood viscosity can accelerate thrombosis in blood vessel.
  • Objective To evaluate the impact of standing time of the peripheral blood on corpuscle determination.
  • (1816-70; diapedesis of the red corpuscles of the blood, studies on nerve-fibres and ganglia, Waller's degeneration) and William Prout The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • In addition to the corpuscles, there were smaller objects; flattened platelike affairs were rather common, for instance. Fantastic Voyage
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