Sentence examples for corpuscle from inspiring English sources

For both matter and radiations, light in particular, it is necessary to introduce the corpuscle concept and the wave concept at the same time.

In adults of all vertebrates above the amphibians, the nephrostomes disappear (or are never formed), so that the tubule begins with the renal corpuscle.

The renal corpuscle is a knot of capillaries (glomerulus) surrounded by a sheath (Bowman's capsule).

The most striking example of an encapsulated receptor is the Pacinian corpuscle, an ovoid structure that is about one millimetre in length and lamellated in section, like an onion; these receptors can be found deep in the dermis.

Using the old-fashioned word corpuscles for particles, Broglie wrote, For both matter and radiations, light in particular, it is necessary to introduce the corpuscle concept and the wave concept at the same time.

Local pressure exerted at the surface or within the body causes deformation of parts of the corpuscle, a shift of chemical ions (e.g., sodium, potassium), and the appearance of a receptor potential at the nerve ending.

The more general finding, that light is slowed in transparent media, directly contradicted Isaac Newton's assertion that light corpuscles travel faster in media than in vacuum and settled any lingering 19th-century doubts about the corpuscle wave debate.

The two key symptoms, on which the doctors came to base their prognosis, were fever and the lowered white-corpuscle count.

Marathon runners are scrawny individuals, the best of whom tell stories of running to school in the highlands of East Africa (high altitude breeds lungs better able to supply red blood corpuscles).

The remains of these corpuscles are removed using a centrifuge.

It is thus that the daughters of a liver cell, say, inherit the property of liverness and so do not turn into kidney cells or blood corpuscles.