somatic cell vs corpuscle

corpuscle vs somatic cell

somatic cell and corpuscle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
somatic cell	Yes	No	No	No
corpuscle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, corpuscle is a hyponym of somatic cell; that is, corpuscle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than somatic cell:

somatic cell: any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes
corpuscle: either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets

Other hyponyms of somatic cell include skin cell, epithelial cell, neoplastic cell, bone cell, blood cell, blood corpuscle, phagocyte, scavenger cell, visual cell, adipose cell, fat cell, muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre, Schwann cell, nerve cell, neuron, glial cell, neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell, hybridoma, labrocyte, mast cell, mastocyte, stem cell, target cell.

somatic cell (noun)	corpuscle (noun)
any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes	either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
	(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

Difference between somatic cell and corpuscle

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