Corpuscle

(kor’-pus-l) [dim. of corpus]. A small body or particle. C, Bizzo zero’s. See Blood-platelets. C, Red, of Blood, biconcave, non-nucleated discs, circular in outline, and containing red coloring-matter, termed hemoglobin, to which the color of the blood is due. Red corpuscles have been divided, according to their size, into normocytes (normal in size), megalocytes (of exce ive size), microcytes (abnormally small), and poikilocytes (of irregular shape and size). The red corpuscles in the blood of man are about –3-2V0 in. in diameter and 12466 in. thick, and their number is about five millions to each cubic millimeter of blood. They consist of a colorle stroma infiltrated with the coloring-matter (hemoglobin). C, White or colorle , flattened cells, about Y^Vo”min diameter, existing in the ratio of I: 500 compared with red corpuscles. Their protoplasm is granular, they have one or more nuclei and no cell-wall. They po e contractile power and alter their shape readily. The colorle corpuscles are variously designated as eosinophile, basophile, neutrophile, mononuclear, polynuclear, lymphocytes, transitional, large, small, etc. C. of Donne. See Colostrum-corpuscles. C, Malpighian, of the spleen, a name applied to the lymphoid nodules of the spleen. C, Malpighian, of tne kidney, the tuft of blood ve els surrounded by the expanded portion of the uriniferous tubule, the capsule of Bowman. C, Norris’s Invisible, colorle , transparent, biconcave discs of the same size as the red corpuscles, invisible in the serum because their color and refractive index are the same as those of the liquor sanguinis. C, Pacinian, certain small corpuscles occurring in the subcutaneous cellular ti ue of the fingers and toes. They consist of concentric lamellae of connective ti ue surrounding the termination of a sensory nerve. C, Tactile, of Wagner, the small, oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin and enveloped by nerve fibers. Corpuscular a little body].{kor Relating pus’ -ku-lar’) to or \_co?pusculum, of the nature of a corpuscle. Correct ant, or 210