Crossword-Solution: CORPUSCLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Corpuscle | n. | A minute particle; an atom; a molecule. |
| Corpuscle | n. | A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CORPUSCLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cell in blood | 1 answer |
| DISC-like body of the blood | 1 answer |
| MINUTE body forming distinct part of organism | 1 answer |
| Red or white blood | 1 answer |
| Blood cell, eg | 1 answer |
| Bit of blood | 2 answers |
| White or red | 2 answers |
| Component of blood | 7 answers |
| BLOOD cell | 16 answers |
| CELL ___ | 57 answers |
| Particle | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZAEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CORPUSCLE (5)
The right lower limb was merely a fleshy corpuscle 3/4 inch wide and 1/4 inch long; to the posterior edge was attached a body resembling the little toe of a newly-born infant.
Indeed, extended observations left no reason to doubt that the process of corpuscle formation and destruction may be a perfectly normal one--that, in short, every red-blood corpuscle runs its course and dies like any more elaborate organism.
Nor are histologists agreed as to whether the red-blood corpuscles themselves are to be regarded as true cells, or merely as fragments of cells budded out from a true cell for a special purpose; but in either case there is not the slightest doubt that the chief function of the red corpuscle is to carry oxygen.
The mass of a cathode ray particle, or corpuscle, as Thomson, adopting Newton's name, called it, is about the eight-hundredth part of the mass of a hydrogen atom.
The question of the nature and physical meaning of a corpuscle or electron remains for consideration.
Quotes with CORPUSCLE (1)
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Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2005).