" corpora "

[Noun]  | "cor*pus" | \ ˈkȯr-pəs \

1: the body of a human or animal especially when dead

2: the main part or body of a bodily structure or organ

3: the main body or corporeal substance of a thing; specifically : the principal of a fund or estate as distinct from income or interest

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English, borrowed from Latin, "body, entity, group of people, collection, compendium" {mat|midriff|};

[Noun]  | "corpus al*la*tum" | \ -ə-ˈlā-təm \

1: one of a pair of separate or fused bodies in many insects that are sometimes closely associated with the corpora cardiaca and that secrete hormones (such as juvenile hormone)

Origin: 1899 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin, perhaps literally, "inserted body";

  * Note : Term introduced by the German zoologist and entomologist Richard Heymons (1867-1943) in "Über bläschenförmige Organe bei den Gespenstheuschrecken," Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1899, 1. Halbband, p. 572. The Latin adjective allatus is the suppletive past participle of afferre "to bring with, deliver, contribute, insert" (see: {afferent:1|afferent:1}). It is unclear what meaning Heymons intended when applying the name to the organ. He at first named them ganglia allata, in the monograph Die Embryonalentwickelung von Dermopteren und Orthopteren (Jena, 1895), but in the later publication he changed the designation to corpora allata when he realized that they did not function as ganglia. He explains the name as follows in the 1899 paper: "Da diese hinteren paarigen Ganglien erst in Folge secundärer Wachsthumsprocesse beim Embryo volkommen passiv zu den übrigen Schlundganglien hingeschoben werden, so hatte ich sie als »ganglia allata« bezeichnet." ("As this anterior pair of ganglia have been pushed into the other esophageal ganglia in a completely passive way, only in consequence of secondary growth processes of the embryo, I had designated them as 'ganglia allata'.") Latin allatus is apparently meant as the equivalent of hingeschoben "pushed (in)" in German.;

[Noun]  | "corpus cal*lo*sum" | \ -ka-ˈlō-səm \

1: the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres of higher mammals including humans

Origin: 1677 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin, literally, "tough body";

[Noun]  | "corpus car*di*a*cum" | \ -kär-ˈdī-ə-kəm \

1: one of a pair of separate or fused bodies of nervous tissue in many insects that lie posterior to the brain and function in the storage and secretion of brain hormone

Origin: 1960 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin, literally, "cardiac body";

[Noun]  | "cor*pus de*lic*ti" | \ ˈkȯr-pəs-di-ˈlik-ˌtī \

1: the substantial and fundamental fact necessary to prove the commission of a crime

2: the material substance (such as the body of the victim of a murder) upon which a crime has been committed

Origin: 1818 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin corpus dēlictī "body of the misdeed";

[Noun]  | "corpus lu*te*um" | \ -ˈlü-tē-əm \

1: a yellowish mass of progesterone-secreting endocrine tissue that forms immediately after ovulation from the ruptured graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary—abbreviation CL

Origin: 1788 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin corpus lūteum "yellow body";

[Noun]  | "corpus striatum" 

1: either of a pair of masses of nervous tissue within the brain that contain two large nuclei of gray matter separated by sheets of white matter

Origin: 1851 ;

 Borrowed from New Latin corpus striātum "furrowed body";

[Noun]  | "corpora" 

[Noun]  | "corpus"