corpuscle
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrpəsəl/
- Specialized
:
célula sanguínea
- Red blood corpuscles transport oxygen throughout the body to keep us alive.
- blood corpuscles
- Hassall corpuscles
That's like like blood vessels, No corpuscles.
- That's like like blood vessels, No corpuscles.
Examples
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Then, white corpuscles will destroy it as they would any other invader.
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We know that the miraculous pills thin our blood, making it easier for our hearts to work, allowing all the corpuscles to course through our bodies at the right speed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Seems to be way below normal in corpuscle count.
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And you'll find every red corpuscle gone from their body.
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There wasn't a red corpuscle left in their bodies.
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In the first place... no man on Earth should be able to live with... such a low count of red corpuscles as you have.
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Those corpuscles carrying oxygen give the stream its color.
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Red corpuscles were almost non-existent.
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We are organisms that are complex machines; our organs are also complex machines. The corpuscles in the blood can be considered as machines; the cells that make them up are also machines, and so are the molecules that make up the cells, and so on.
Academic text (1998) -
But it was not until 1950 that biologists discovered that the reason for the pallor was that ice fishes entirely lacked hemoglobin and had only vestigial numbers of corpuscles.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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2.5
A cell in the blood that carries oxygen or fights infection
A small cell in blood that carries oxygen, fights infection, or helps stop bleeding
Compounds
- Specialized
A small cell in blood that carries oxygen, fights infection, or helps stop bleeding
- Specialized
A part of the kidney at the end of a small tube where blood is filtered
- Specialized
A small nerve ending under the skin that senses pressure and fast vibration
- Archaic
A blood cell that helps protect the body by eating and killing bacteria and other germs
Surface Forms
Etymology
Corpuscle comes from Latin corpus 'body' plus -cle 'small', so it means 'small body'. This makes it easy to see why a blood corpuscle is a little body in the blood, like a red or white cell.