— corpuscular /kawr pus"kyeuh leuhr/ , corpusculated /kawr pus"kyeuh lay'tid/ , corpusculous , adj. — corpuscularity /kawr pus'kyeuh lar"i tee/ , n.
/kawr"peuh seuhl, -pus euhl/ , n.
1. Biol. an unattached cell, esp. of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
2. Anat. a small mass or body forming a more or less distinct part, as the sensory receptors at nerve terminals.
3. Physical Chem. a minute or elementary particle of matter, as an electron, proton, or atom.
4. any minute particle.
Also, corpuscule /kawr pus"kyoohl/ .
[ 1650-60; corpusculum, equiv. to corpus body + -culum -CLE 1 ]