corpuscle Definition

a minute particle

a living cell; especially : one (such as a red or white blood cell or a cell in cartilage or bone) not aggregated into continuous tissues

any of various small circumscribed multicellular bodies

the part of a nephron that consists of a glomerulus and Bowman's capsule —called also Malpighian body

a pressure-sensitive mechanoreceptor that is an oval capsule terminating some sensory nerve fibers especially in the skin

any of the hemoglobin-containing cells that carry oxygen to the tissues and in mammals are typically biconcave disks which lack a nucleus and cellular organelles and are formed from nucleated cells of the red bone marrow —called also erythrocyte

any of the blood cells that are colorless, lack hemoglobin, contain a nucleus, and include the lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils —called also leukocyte, white blood corpuscle, white cell