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Corpuscle meaning
A minute particle; an atom; a molecule. | 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.
Synonyms of Corpuscle
Example sentences (3)
If the pressure is steady, there is no more stimulus; thus, typically these neurons respond with a transient depolarization during the initial deformation and again when the pressure is removed, which causes the corpuscle to change shape again.
Therefore, they were not atoms, but a new particle, the first subatomic particle to be discovered, which he originally called "corpuscle" but was later named electron, after particles postulated by George Johnstone Stoney in 1874.
When pressure is applied and the corpuscle is deformed, mechanical stimulus is transferred to the axon, which fires.