| corpora arenacea | Small calcareous concretions in the stroma of the pineal and other central nervous system tissues. Synonym: acervulus, brain sand, psammoma bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| corpora bigemina | A bilateral single swelling of the roofplate of the embryonic midbrain that later in development becomes subdivided into a superior and an inferior colliculus. See: quadrigeminal bodies. Synonym: corpora bigemina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpora cavernosa | Two chambers in the penis which run the length of the organ and are filled with spongy tissue. Blood flows in and fills the open spaces in the spongy tissue to create an erection. (12 Dec 1998) |
| corpora lutea cysts | Persistent corpora lutea with cyst formation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpora para-aortica | Small masses of chromaffin cells found near the sympathetic ganglia along the abdominal aorta. They serve as chemoreceptors responsive to oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen ion concentration, and help to control respiration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| corpora quadrigemina | See: inferior colliculus, superior colliculus. Synonym: corpora quadrigemina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corporeal | Pertaining to the body, or to a corpus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corporin | An obsolete term for corpus luteum hormone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corps ronds | Dyskeratotic round cells occurring in the epidermis, with a central round basophilic mass surrounded by a clear halo; characteristically found in keratosis follicularis. Origin: Fr. Round bodies (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpse | Synonym: cadaver. Origin: L. Corpus, body (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpulence | Corpulency Synonym: obesity. Origin: L. Corpulentia, magnification of corpus, body (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpulent | Excessively fat. Synonym: corpulent. Origin: L. Obesus, fat, partic. Adj., fr. Ob-edo, pp. -esus, to eat away, devour (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpus | The body of the uterus (womb). (12 Dec 1998) |
| corpus adiposum | An accumulation of somewhat encapsulated adipose tissue. Synonym: corpus adiposum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| corpus adiposum buccae | An encapsuled mass of fat in the cheek on the outer side of the buccinator muscle, especially marked in the infant; supposed to strengthen and support the cheek during the act of sucking. Synonym: corpus adiposum buccae, Bichat's fat-pad, Bichat's protuberance, fat body of cheek, sucking cushion, sucking pad, suctorial pad. (05 Mar 2000) |