Corpuscle

Corpuscle may refer to:

  • a small free floating biological cell, especially a blood cell
  • a nerve ending such as Meissner's corpuscle or a Pacinian corpuscle
  • any member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge or Corpus Christi College, Oxford
  • a subatomic particle made obsolete by the modern electron and used in J.J. Thomson's plum pudding model of the atom
  • a single, infinitesimally small, particle of light. Isaac Newton proposed this term to represent a concept that was quite different from the idea of a photon.