corpuscle
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The corpuscles of most mammals are smaller than those of man, but the size of a corpuscle is affected by various circumstances, such as drying or moisture, so that the medical witness is rarely justified in going farther than stating whether the stain is that of the blood of a mammal or not.
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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.
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- There are sundry very low animals, each of which, structurally, is a mere colourless blood-corpuscle, leading an independent life. — Autobiography and Selected Essays
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The corpuscles of most mammals are smaller than those of man, but the size of a corpuscle is affected by various circumstances, such as drying or moisture, so that the medical witness is rarely justified in going farther than stating whether the stain is that of the blood of a mammal or not.
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology -
Again, at another increase of temperature, when the liquid became a gas, the corpuscle would experience a further emancipation: it would possess a further freedom, with all the facts of its universe to learn anew Each of these successive crises would constitute for it an initiation, and since the heat has acted upon it from within, causing an expansion of its life vehicle, it would seem to itself to have attained to these new freedoms through self-development 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 Nirvana--inherits the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world.
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The corpuscles of most mammals are smaller than those of man, but the size of a corpuscle is affected by various circumstances, such as drying or moisture, so that the medical witness is rarely justified in going farther than stating whether the stain is that of the blood of
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology -
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
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- Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (kôrˈpə-səl, -pŭsˌəl)/
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