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The MCV, or "Mean Corpuscular Volume" count, measures the average size of red blood cells, which are responsible for transporting oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023

We have up to the present dealt with only two theories of light, the Corpuscular theory and the Undulatory or Wave theory.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

Those two theories are known as the Emission or Corpuscular Theory, and the Undulatory or Wave Theory.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George

Corpuscular Philosophy, the philosophy which accounts for physical phenomena by the position and the motions of corpuscles.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

In the Corpuscular theory we have luminous particles emitted by luminous bodies.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George