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Corpus n. (pl. corpora) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Corpus callosum; (pl. corpora callosa) (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.

Corpus Christi (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 (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.

Corpus luteum; (pl. corpora lutea) (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.

Corpus striatum; (pl. corpora striata) (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

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"Corpus callosum" Quotes from Famous Books

... brains, nor even on the opposite sides of the same brain, yet there are certain features of similarity in all; accordingly, anatomists enumerate four orders of convolutions. The first order begins at the substantia perforata and passes upward and around the corpus callosum toward the posterior margin of that body, thence descends to the base of the brain, and terminates near its origin. The second order originates from the first, and subdivides into two convolutions, one of which composes the exterior margin and superior part of the ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... brain are seldom exactly alike in their pattern. Although each hemisphere is especially related to the opposite half of the body, the two are unified in function by a great bridge of nerve fibres, called the corpus callosum, which unites them. The cortical centres or structures with specialised functions localised in particular regions of one hemisphere are associated by fibres passing to the same region in the opposite hemisphere ...

— The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song • F. W. Mott