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noun(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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nouneither of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
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- leeuwenhoek Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
- corpuscular of or relating to corpuscles
- hematocrit a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
- anton van leeuwenhoek Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
- leuwenhoek Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
- haematocrit a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood
- anton van leuwenhoek Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles (1632-1723)
- blood count the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample
- blood count the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample