1. a small cell in the body, especially a red or white blood cell
Usage: medical; biology
2. a very small particle of matter
Usage: physics; formal

Examples

• Red blood corpuscles carry oxygen throughout the body.
• White corpuscles help fight infection and disease.
• The microscope revealed thousands of tiny corpuscles in the blood sample.
• Light can be thought of as consisting of energy corpuscles called photons.
• The scientist studied the movement of dust corpuscles in the air.
• A single drop of blood contains millions of corpuscles.
• The patient’s corpuscle count was abnormally low.