Corpuscle

Corpuscle is an archaic term that has several meanings:

a small free floating biological cell, especially ones occurring in blood.
a subatomic particle similar to the electron. This term was first proposed in the paper:
a single, infinitesimally small, particle of light. Isaac Newton proposed this term to represent a concept that was quite different from the idea of a photon.

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