white blood corpuscle

Questions about white blood corpuscle

What does white blood corpuscle mean?

white blood corpuscle means "blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system".

What is another word for white blood corpuscle?

Close synonyms include leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white 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 white blood corpuscle a common word?

white 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.