‖Cor″pus (–pŭs), n.; pl.Corpora (–pō̍‐rȧ). A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Corpus callosum (kăl‐lō″sŭm); pl.Corpora callosa (-s�) (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. — Corpus Christi (krĭs″tī) (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 (dē̍‐lĭk″tī) (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. — Corpus luteum (lū″tē̍‐ŭm); pl.Corpora lutea (–ȧ). (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. — Corpus striatum (strī̍‐ā″tŭm); pl.Corpora striata (–tȧ). (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.