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Pacinian corpuscle
Meissner's corpuscle
Function of pacinian...
Krause corpuscle
Ruffini corpuscle
Ruffians corpuscle
Lamellated corpuscle
Merkel's corpuscle
Location of pacinian...
Ruffini's corpuscles...
Skin
Krause's end bulb
Definitions
lymphatic
corpuscle
lymphatic corpuscle
Corpuscle
[
kawr
-p
uh
-s
uh
l
,
-puhs-
uh
l
]
Show IPA
/
ˈkɔr
pə
səl
,
-pʌs
əl
/
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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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