blood corpuscle

Questions about blood corpuscle

What does blood corpuscle mean?

blood corpuscle means "either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets".

What is another word for blood corpuscle?

Close synonyms include blood cell, corpuscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood corpuscle a common word?

blood corpuscle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.