Corpus /(-pŭs)/
Cor·pus
Corpus
n.
pl. Corpora ((-pō̇*rȧ))
- A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Phrases & Compounds
- Corpus callosum
- the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.
- Corpus Christi
- 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
- the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.
- Corpus luteum
- the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
- Corpus striatum
- a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.