corpuscles

We often refer to our highways, roads and avenues as “arteries,” as if they carried corpuscles instead of cars, platelets rather than pedestrians.

My senses seemed supersensitive and I was sure I could hear their food going down, their corpuscles moving through their bloodstreams, their alveoli inflating and deflating.

Atoms and corpuscles are not machines, but their interaction is determined by size, shape and hardness, just as the interaction of the parts of a clock are.

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.

Functionally, corpuscles thus served as atoms, while avoiding the mathematical objection against indivisibility.