English

Noun

1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
2. A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood.

• a small free floating biological cell, especially ones occurring in blood
• a nerve ending such as Meissner's corpuscle or a Pacinian corpuscle
• a subatomic particle obsoleted by the modern electron and used in J.J. Thomson's plum-pudding model of the atom
• a single, infinitesimally small, particle of light. Isaac Newton proposed this term to represent a concept that was quite different from the idea of a photon.
• a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, or of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
• term referring to an employee of the United States Army Corps of Engineers