Definitions for corpora

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corpora cor·po·ra

Spelling: [kawr-per-uh]

IPA: /ˈkɔr pər ə/

Corpora is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in corpora (acooprr).

Definitions for corpora

noun

1. a plural of corpus.
2. a large or complete collection of writings:
3. the body of a person or animal, especially when dead.
4. Anatomy. a body, mass, or part having a special character or function.
5. Linguistics. a body of utterances, as words or sentences, assumed to be representative of and used for lexical, grammatical, or other linguistic analysis.
6. a principal or capital sum, as opposed to interest or income.

Origin of corpora

1225-75; Middle English Latin

Examples for corpora

Between and beneath the corpora cavernosa lies the corpus spongiosum which consists principally of the urethra.

The corpora striata are united at their posterior border with the optic thalami.

The corpora amylacea, so called, differ materially from starch-granules, and still more from the amyloid matter.

Mysticism is produced by the combustion of the gray vascular matter in the sensorium—the thalami optici and the corpora striata.

The brain becomes relatively larger but more compact, and the optic lobes (corpora bigemina) become more distinct.

In 1704 appeared his treatise de imperio solis ac lunæ in corpora humana, & morbis inde oriundis.

The number of these corpora lutea corresponds exactly with the number of newly formed ova.

The reduction in size of the foramen of Munro above mentioned is, to a large extent, caused by the growth of the corpora striata.

But there is considerable difference between the corpora lutea of non-pregnant and pregnant women.

I have had opportunities of examining the ovaria with care in several cases of twins, and always found two corpora lutea.