white corpuscle

white corpuscle


Origin:
1865–70

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white corpuscle

noun
blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system [syn: leukocyte
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White corpuscle is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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