What is "corpuscles"

Usage examples of "corpuscles".

The microscopic anatomists had shown that the ganglionic corpuscles of the gray matter of the cord are connected with each other by their processes, as well as with the nerve-roots.

It is also indicated where there is a lack of red blood corpuscles, as in anaemia.

When pus formation has occurred it is an indication that the white blood corpuscles have successfully overcome the invading microorganisms.

She visualized the corpuscles rushing red and busy through her arm to her finger, back up to her shoulder, through the pulmonary vessels, the heart, and out again in a gushing rush.

I thought about all the fat red corpuscles forcing their way through the shrunken capillaries like water gushing along dry irrigation ditches after a drought.

No one has shown satisfactorily the process by which the bloodcorpuscles are formed out of the lymph-corpuscles, nor what becomes of them.

In fact, the ganglionic corpuscles of each eye may be considered as constituting a little brain, connected with the masses behind by the commissure, commonly called the optic nerve.

I am not content until I know in what language Harvey announced his discovery of the circulation, and how Spigelius made the liver his perpetual memorial, and Malpighi found a monument more enduring than brass in the corpuscles of the spleen and the kidney.

After those spheres had galloped out of the corpuscles, they turned suddenly into crescent shapes, then those crescents would shoot out two, three, four, sometimes six long whips, which lashed and curled about and made the beast look like a microscopic octopus.

The weary old red corpuscles hoisted themselves to their feet and started trudging around again.