cor'pus, gen. cor'por is, pi. cor'por a

[L.] The body. Any body or ma . The main part of an organ or other anatomical structure, as distinguished from the caput (head) or cauda (tail). ma 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. a ma of soft fat contained in the orbit. a whitish body in the cortex of the ovary, the remains of the atrophied c. luteum; (z) c. mam mill are, c. candicans. ber of small ovoid or rounded bodies having an irregularly laminated structure resembling a grain of starch found in nervous ti ue, in the kidney, lungs, and other organs, and also in certain tumors, inflammatory exudates, and blood-clots; they represent a degenerative proce analogous to colloid degeneration. commi ure between the cerebral hemispheres, lying at the bottom of the longitudinal fi ure, and covered on each side by the gyrus cinguli; it is arched from behind forward and is thick at each extremity (splenium and genu) but thinner in its long central portion (truncus) it turns upon itself at the genu and sends a thin extremity forward (the rostrum) the white fibers connecting the two hemispheres make transVerse markings on the surface, but in addition there are four strands of gray matter (striae longitudinales) running in an anteroposterior direction. columns of erectile ti ue forming the body of the clitoris; they diverge at the root to form the crura. charum [BNA], erectile ti ue in the mucous membrane covering the nasal turbinated bones. ti ue lying side by side on the dorsum of the penis; they are separated posteriorly, forming the crura penis, and are attached to the inner portion of the arch of the pubis. the mesial column of erectile ti ue, lying in the urethral sulcus, between and below the two corpora cavernosa penis it forms an expansion at either extremity the posterior being the bulb us urethrce, the anterior the glans penis; it is traversed by the urethra. tunica vasculosa of the eye between the chorioid and the iris it consists of three parts or zones: orbiculus ciliaris, corona ciliaris, and musculus ciliaris. [BNA]; (2) nucleus olivaris. band on the edge of the comu inferius of the lateral