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Corpuscle

minute solid micro- CORRAL CORRÈZE are of two kinds, (1) colored corpuscles, to attend schools and college, either beknown also as the red particles or the red globules; and (2) the colorless, known also as the white or pale corpuscles. The former are the more numerous. The colored corpuscles are not really globular; they are flattened or discoidal, the outline being circular.

In most mammals the corpuscles are like those of man. In the camel, however, they are elliptical in outline. In birds, reptiles, and most fishes they are oval disks with a central elevation on each side. Those of the invertebrata are, as a rule, not colored, the annelids alone being an exception.

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