Corpora

{kor’ ’-por-ah) [pi. of corpus, a body]. A general term applied to certain parts of the body having a rounded or oval shape. C. albicantia, two white ma es in the inter peduncular space at the base of the brain, the projections of the anterior pillars of the fornix. C. geniculata, two small eminences projecting from the optic thalami. C. quadrigemina, the optic lobes of the brain, the four rounded eminences situated under the corpus callosum. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior, the testes. 209