corpulency

(kor’pulen-se) (L. corpulen'tia]. Undue fatne or obesity: polys arc i a. corpus (kor’pus), pl. corpora [L. for “ body ”]. 1. The body. 2. The main part of any organ. 3. Any ma of specialized ti ue.. Ἕ’- sum Ὀϊοοδθ. Sce pad, sucking. c. i’ cans. See corpora albicantia. c. alie’num, a foreign body. c. aran’tii. Sce corpora arantii. c. bigem’ {num. 1. Either one of the optic lobes of a fish or bird. 2. Le correctly, a corpus quadrigeminum of the mammalian brain. Ο. calca’nei, the body of the calcaneum. c. callo’sum, the callosum. or great commi ure, of the brain: it is an arched ma of white matter, situated at the bottom of the longitudinal fi ure, and is made up of transverse fibers connecting the cerebral hemispheres. c. caver no’sum. See corpora caterno . Cc. caver no’sum ure’thre. Same as c. spongiosum. c. Cilia’re. See ciliary bedy, under body. c. dent a’tum, ‘‘toothed body’’; a small oval ma of gray substance on the section of cither hemisphere of the cerebellum. ec. dent a’tum oli’ve, an oval ma of gray matter in the olivary body; the olivary nucleus. c. fibro’sum, a hard ma projecting from the surface of an inflamed ovary. ec. fimbria’tum, “< fringed body "; a narrow band of white matter bordering the lateral edge of the lower cornu of the lateral ventricle. c. genicula’tum, “ knee-like body "; either one of a pair of tubercles on the inferior part of the optic thalami. c. genicula’tum later a’le, the external geniculate body; a bulging of the posterior portion of the thalamus, external to the pulvinar. c. genicula’tum med i’ale, the internal geniculate body; an elevation on the thalamus behind the pulvinar. c. glandulo’sum, a spongy eminence which surrounds the orifice of the female urethra. c. high moria’num, the mediastinum of the testis. c. interpeduncula’re, a small ma of gray matter just in front of the pons varolii, between the peduncles of the brain. Called also ganglion interpedunculare. c. lu‘teum, “yellow body”; a yellow ma in the ovary in the place of an ovisac which has discharged its ovum; if the ovum has