corpuscle
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The nephron is made up of the renal corpuscle and renal tubule.
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
Vocabulary lists containing corpuscle
Body Language: Corp ("Body")
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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The Gene
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