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A corpuscle is one of the tiny cells that travel in your blood — the red ones that carry oxygen, or the white ones that fight illness. Older biology books said “red corpuscles” and “white corpuscles” all the time. Today teachers and doctors more often say red blood cells and white blood cells. Corpuscle has not disappeared, but it feels a bit textbook-old, a little like 19th-century science. The picture behind the word is “a little body” — a tiny bit of living stuff. You may also meet it in very old writing for any small particle, but the blood-cell sense is the one students meet in class.
血球（紅血球或白血球；現在課堂上更常直接說 blood cell）
組成From Latin corpusculum, a small form of corpus (“body”) — “little body.”
同家族的字
- corpusLatin “body”; this word is the “little body” form
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Corpusclenoun
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A member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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A member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
corpusclenoun/ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/
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A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
- [b]y mixing divers Liquors, very odd and remarkable Productions and Changes of Colours may be effected, of which no cause can be more obvious and rational than that the saline Corpuscles of one Liquor do variously act upon or unite with the tinging Corpuscles of another, so as to make them swell, or shrink, (whereby not only their bulk but their density also may be changed,) or to divide them into smaller Corpuscles, (whereby a colour'd Liquor may become transparent,) or to make many of them associate into one cluster, whereby two transparent Liquors may compose a colour'd one.
- 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.
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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.
- They gave me blood tests, of course. All kinds of blood tests testing my white corpuscles, testing my red corpuscles, testing one against the other.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。