Corpus

Corpus callosum — the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.

Corpus Christi — 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 — the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.

Corpus luteum — the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.

Corpus striatum — a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.