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Definition of Corpora
1. corpus [n] - See also: corpus
Medical Definition of Corpora
1. Plural of corpus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpora
Literary usage of Corpora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"It is pierced by the fibres of the third nerve, and prolonged above into the
posterior part of the subthalamic region. The corpora or ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"/Structure of the corpora Quadrigemina and Geniculata.—The peripheral i/ray matter
of the corpora quadrigemina differs somewhat in the posterior and ..."
3. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"Olive», Eminence* laterale», Ch. Oblong, whitish eminences, situate at the
occipital surface of the medulla oblongata, exterior to the corpora ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"At the times ovulation occurs the corpora lutea of the previous sexual period
... The beginning degeneration of the corpora lutea is a prerequisite for the ..."
5. Handbook of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1873)
"Destruction of one of the corpora quadrigemina (or of one optic lobe in birds),
... It contracts when the corpora quadrigemina are irritated : it is always ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1845)
"Theory of Menstruation and corpora Lútea. By Dr. CHARLES RITCHIE.—At a meeting
of the Médico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, held on the 8th of July, ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If the sensory impulses received by the optic thalami are sent to the corpora
striata, and by these transmitted downwards and outwards through the crura ..."
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