Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr [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 [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; pl. Corpora lutea (-. [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

corpus, n. (pl. corpora or corpuses)
1 a body or collection of writings, texts, spoken material, etc.
2 Anat. a structure of a special character in the animal body.

Etymology

ME f. L, = body

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THESAURUS

corpus

A to Z, A to izzard, Festschrift, acquaintance, aggregate, all, all and sundry, alpha and omega, ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, assemblage, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, body, bones, bulk, capital, capital gains distribution, capital structure, capitalization, carcass, chrestomathy, circulating capital, clay, clod, collectanea, collection, compilation, complement, core, data, datum, each and every, equity capital, everything, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, figure, fixed capital, flesh, floating capital, florilegium, form, frame, fund, holdings, hulk, information, intelligence, intimacy, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, length and breadth, library, mass, material body, menagerie, moneyed capital, museum, one and all, package, package deal, person, physical body, physique, practical knowledge, principal, private knowledge, privity, ratio cognoscendi, raw data, self-knowledge, set, soma, staple, substance, technic, technics, technique, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range, torso, treasure, trunk, venture capital, working capital, zoo

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corpus

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

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