corpuscle

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹˌpʌsəl/

Noun

corpuscle (plural corpuscles)

1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.

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.

Derived terms

• blood corpuscle
• kidney corpuscle, Malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle
• red corpuscle
• Ruffini's corpuscle

Related terms

• corpuscular
• corpuscularism
• corpuscularianism

Translations

A minute particle

• Bulgarian: телце n (telce), частица (bg) f (častica)
• Catalan: corpuscle m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小体 (zh) (xiǎotǐ) (科学名词)

• Czech: částečka f, částice (cs) f, korpuskule f
• Esperanto: globeto, korpeto, korpusklo
• Finnish: hiukkanen (fi), hitunen (fi)
• French: corpuscule (fr) m
• German: Korpuskel (de) n or f
• Ido: globulo (io)
• Irish: coirpín m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: corpuzzo m, corpuscolo (it) m
• Maori: pōkurukuru
• Persian: کرپول (karpūl), ذره (fa) (zarre)
• Portuguese: corpúsculo (pt) m
• Romanian: corpuscul (ro), particulă (ro)
• Russian: те́льце (ru) n (télʹce), части́ца (ru) f (častíca), части́чка (ru) f (častíčka), корпу́скула (ru) f (korpúskula)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: корпу̀скула f

  Roman: korpùskula (sh) f

• Spanish: corpúsculo m