corpuscle

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/    美 /ˈkɔɹˌpʌsəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
    — [b]y mixing divers Liquors, very odd and remarkable Productions and Changes of Colours may be effected, of which no cause can be more obvious and rational than that the saline Corpuscles of one Liquor do variously act upon or unite with the tinging Corpuscles of another, so as to make them swell, or shrink, (whereby not only their bulk but their density also may be changed,) or to divide them into smaller Corpuscles, (whereby a colour'd Liquor may become transparent,) or to make many of them associate into one cluster, whereby two transparent Liquors may compose a colour'd one.
  2. A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, 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.
    — They gave me blood tests, of course. All kinds of blood tests testing my white corpuscles, testing my red corpuscles, testing one against the other.

词形变化

corpuscles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blood corpuscle kidney corpuscle Malpighian corpuscle renal corpuscle lamellar corpuscle Pacinian corpuscle Rainey's corpuscle red corpuscle Ruffini's corpuscle Vater-Pacini corpuscle white blood corpuscle
相关词
corpuscular corpuscularism corpuscularianism

词源

From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”).
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