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    corpuscle

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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    cor·pus·cle /ˈkɔːpəsəl, kɔːˈpʌ- $ ˈkɔːrpə-/ noun [countable]  HBone of the red or white cells in the blood 血细胞，血球
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    corpuscle• There is not a corpuscle to spare between her lean, muscular frame and her black Diesel pants.• Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings.• Primary qualities belong not only to observable substances such as gold, but also to the minute corpuscles which make them up.• They result from their real essences, the arrangement of corpuscles which make them up.    Origin corpuscle (1600-1700) Latin corpusculum “small body”, from corpus; → CORPUS
    cor·pus·cle nounChineseSyllable
    blood or one in cells the of Corpus the white red


    corpuscle
    cor‧pus‧cle /ˈkɔːpəsəl, kɔːˈpʌ- $ ˈkɔːrpə-/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Latin
     Origin: corpusculum 'small body', from corpus; ⇨ corpus
    one of the red or white cells in the blood


    cor·puscleBrE /ˈkɔːpʌsl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkɔːrpʌsl/ 🔊 noun (anatomy 解剖学) any of the red or white cells found in blood （红或白）血球，血细胞◆red/white corpuscles 红血球；白血球