corpuscle

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The nephron consists of three parts: the renal corpuscle, the renal tubule, and the associated capillary network originating from the segmental renal artery.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

“Is there in our parks any tree more elegant and leafy than the Purkinje corpuscle of the cerebellum or the psychic cell, in other words, the famous cerebral pyramid?” he asked.

From Scientific American • Apr. 9, 2022

One of these receptors, the Pacinian corpuscle, responds to pressure and vibration.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2021

In fact, as the neuroscientist David Linden explained to me, it involves a predictable misread by something called a Pacinian corpuscle.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee