Elementary corpuscle
1corpuscle — corpuscular /kawr pus kyeuh leuhr/, corpusculated /kawr pus kyeuh lay tid/, corpusculous, adj. corpuscularity /kawr pus kyeuh lar i tee/, n. /kawr peuh seuhl, pus euhl/, n. 1. Biol. an unattached cell, esp. of a kind that floats freely, as a… …
2corpuscle — /ˈkɔpʌsəl/ (say kawpusuhl), /ˈkɔpəsəl / (say kawpuhsuhl) noun 1. Physiology one of the minute bodies which form a constituent of the blood (blood corpuscles, both red and white), the lymph (lymph corpuscles, white only), etc. 2. a minute body… …
3cell — n. 1. Small room, confined apartment. 2. Solitary abode; squalid, lonely dwelling. 3. Enclosed space, small cavity. 4. Elementary corpuscle, organic unit, simplest organism …
4body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the …
5Platelet — An irregular, disc shaped element in the blood that assists in blood clotting. During normal blood clotting, the platelets clump together (aggregate). Although platelets are often classed as blood cells, they are actually fragments of large bone… …
6nature, philosophy of — Introduction the discipline that investigates substantive issues regarding the actual features of nature as a reality. The discussion here is divided into two parts: the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. In this… …
7atom — /at euhm/, n. 1. Physics. a. the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element, consisting of a nucleus containing combinations of neutrons and protons and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus by electrical… …
8History of the molecule — In chemistry, the history of the molecule traces the origins of the concept or idea of the existence of strong chemical bonds between two or more atoms. The modern concept of molecules can be traced back towards pre scientific Greek philosophers… …
9Optics — For the book by Sir Isaac Newton, see Opticks. Optical redirects here. For the musical artist, see Optical (artist). Optics includes study of dispersion of light. Optics is the branch of …
10particle — 1 Particle, bit, mite, smidgen, whit, atom, iota, jot, tittle all mean a very small or insignificant piece or part. Particle is used in reference not only to substances which are actually divisible but to such things as a quality, a state, or a… …
