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Corpus
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What's The Definition Of Corpus?
[n] the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
[n] a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" [n] capital as contrasted with the income derived from it Synonyms | Synonyms for Corpus: principal | principal sum Related Terms | Find terms related to Corpus: A to izzard | A to Z | 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 | Festschrift | 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 See Also | accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | body part | capital | collection | corpus striatum | part | piece | striate body Corpus In Webster's Dictionary \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. {Corpora} (-p[-o]*r[.a]).
[L.]
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
{Corpus callosum} (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. {Corpora
callosa} (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band
of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres.
See {Brain}.
{Corpus Christi} (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [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[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [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[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. {Corpora lutea}
(-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow
mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the
mammalian ovary.
{Corpus striatum} (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. {Corpora
striata} (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in
the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
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