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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An unattached body cell, such as a blood or lymph cell.
  2. n. A rounded globular mass of cells, such as the pressure receptor on certain nerve endings.
  3. n. A discrete particle, such as a photon or an electron.
  4. n. A minute globular particle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A minute particle, molecule, or atom of matter.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. 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. They are styled by Sachs archegonia, and are considered by him to be of the same nature as the archegonia of the higher cryptogams. They have also been called secondary embryo-sacs.
  4. n. Same as corposant.
  5. n. 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.
  6. n. In electricity, a body smaller than an atom, assumed to explain the phenomena of electric discharges in gases, and of radioactivity.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
  2. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
  2. n. (Anat.) 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.
  3. n. (Physics), archaic An electron.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
  2. n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

Etymologies

  1. From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus ("body"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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.”

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

  • “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.”

    X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1e. Peripheral Terminations of Nerves of General Sensations

  • “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.”

    V. The Physiological Theory of Fermentation. Another Example of Life Without Air-Fermentation of Lactate of Lime

  • “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”

    Four-Dimensional Vistas

  • “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.”

    Archive 2009-04-01

  • “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,”

    Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism

  • “My bones will rob me blind, corpuscle by corpuscle.”

    Fictionaut: Countdown

  • “It all starts with the photon, that little corpuscle of light.”

    The Huffington Post: Peter Baksa: Can Quantum Physics Explain God?

  • “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.”

    The Huffington Post: Dylan Brody: Jeanmarie Simpson -- Artivist in the Modern Landscape (Part 2)

  • ““Every corpuscle of every society in the history of this globe has religion at its core!””

    Simon & Schuster: Gunn’s Golden Rules

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. atom
  1. molecule
  1. electron
  1. particle
  1. cell

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. glomeruli
  2. pedicle
  3. insuff
  4. cirrhi
  1. tox
  2. backlink
  3. tubules
  4. diffusible
  1. underlip
  2. calculi
  3. toxemia
  4. taproot
  1. psycho-motor
  2. stenosis
  3. adrenergic
  4. mammae
  1. neoplasm
  2. dialysis
  3. emboli
  4. golden-yellow
  1. micrometeorite

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. erythrocyte
  2. leucocyte
  3. neutrophile
  4. white blood cell
  5. red blood cell
  6. touch-body
  7. Malpighian
  8. endocorpuscular
  9. intracorpuscular
  10. krause's corpuscle
  11. pyocyte
  12. traube's corpuscles
  13. taste-corpuscle
  14. touch-corpuscle
  15. phagocyte
  16. bioplast
  17. corpuscule
  18. corpusculum
  1. grandry corpuscle
  2. megalocyte
  3. poikilocyte
  4. globule
  5. particle
  6. enhemospore
  7. plasma-cell
  8. ruffini corpuscles
  9. shadow
  10. vater's corpuscles
  11. malpighian body
  12. cystoplast
  13. gymnoplast
  14. haematoblast
  15. erythrocytoschisis
  16. gigantoblast
  17. gigantocyte
  18. hematid
  1. hematocyte
  2. intraglobular
  3. macrocyte
  4. megoxycyte
  5. microblast
  6. microxycyte
  7. normocyte
  8. osteamœba
  9. plasmocyte
  10. pœciloblast
  11. protohematoblast
  12. rhodocyte
  13. sillage
  14. wagner's corpuscles
  15. meissner's corpuscles
  16. nucleolid
  17. plasmasome
  18. pœcilocyte
  1. pseudobacterium
  2. ruysch's glomerule
  3. astrocyte
  4. blood-plastid
  5. chromocrater
  6. apoblast
  7. blood-cell
  8. blood-disk
  9. cone-granule
  10. lymph-cell
  11. Malpighian corpuscle
  12. blood corpuscle
  13. electron
  14. element
  15. hemad
  16. blood cell
  17. renal corpuscle
  18. microcyte
  1. schizont
  2. sclerite
  3. sense organ
  4. stroma
  5. ameba
  6. amoebiform
  7. amyloplast
  8. cell (sel)
  9. cle
  10. fever
  11. microsoma
  12. nucleus
  13. amœbocyte
  14. ghost
  15. megaloblast
  16. normoblast
  17. polychromatophil
  18. rainey's corpuscle
  1. subatom
  2. touch

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  • exquisite Moreover, the Moon ---
    by Mina Loy

    Face of the skies
    preside
    over our wonder.

    Fluorescent
    truant of heaven
    draw us under.

    Silver, circular corpse
    your decease
    infects us with unendurable ease,

    touching nerve-terminals
    to thermal icicles

    Coercive as coma, frail as bloom
    innuendoes of your inverse dawn
    suffuse the self;
    our every corpuscle become an elf. Dec 28, 2006

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