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Corpuscle
Corpuscle may refer to:
- a small free floating biological cell, especially a blood cell
- 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
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