white corpuscle

Questions about white corpuscle

What does white corpuscle mean?

white 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 corpuscle?

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

white 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.