CORPUS (corpora)

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Irregular inflected form: corpora   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does corpus mean? 

• CORPUS (noun)
  The noun CORPUS has 3 senses:

1. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

2. a collection of writings

3. the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

  Familiarity information: CORPUS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

corpus; principal; principal sum

Hypernyms ("corpus" is a kind of...):

capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A collection of writings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

he edited the Hemingway corpus

Hypernyms ("corpus" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The main part of an organ or other bodily structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("corpus" is a kind of...):

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Holonyms ("corpus" is a part of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

 Context examples 

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the uterine corpus.

(Benign Uterine Corpus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital abnormality characterized by the complete absence of the corpus callosum.

(Corpus Callosum Agenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the uterine corpus and is composed of epithelial and mesenchymal elements.

(Benign Uterine Corpus Mixed Epithelial and Mesenchymal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include benign prostate phyllodes tumor, benign Sertoli cell tumor, uterine corpus leiomyoma, and benign ovarian serous tumor.

(Benign Reproductive System Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A cytologically benign smooth muscle neoplasm that arises from the uterine corpus and has metastasized to the lungs, abdomen, or lymph nodes.

(Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma of the Uterine Corpus, NCI Thesaurus)

An irregularly curved cavity that extends from the interventricular foramen to the splenium of the corpus callosum in the brain.

(Body of the Lateral Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)

Bromocriptine selectively binds to and activates the postsynaptic dopamine D2-like receptors in the corpus striatum of the central nervous system (CNS).

(Bromocriptine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cerebral fissure that originates near the occipital lobe and terminates below the corpus callosum.

(Calcarine Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

This drug also binds to dopamine D2 receptors in the corpus striatum, thereby mimicking the actions of dopamine on motor control.

(Cabergoline, NCI Thesaurus)

The corpus callosum is located deep in the longitudinal fissure.

(Corpus Callosum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)