CORPUS
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‖Cor"pus (-pŭs), n.; pl. Corpora (-p&ouptack_;*r&adot_;). [L.] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
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Corpus callosum (kăl*l&ō;"sŭm); pl. Corpora callosa (-s&unr_;) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (krĭs"t&ī;) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d&euptack_;*lĭk"t&ī;) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (l&ū;"t&euptack_;*ŭm); pl. Corpora lutea (-&adot_;). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str&iuptack_;*&ā;"tŭm); pl. Corpora striata (-t&adot_;). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
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