||Cor"pus (-pŭs), n.; pl. Corpora (-p&osl;*r&adot;). [L.] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Corpus callosum (kăl*lō"sŭm); pl.Corpora callosa (-s&?;) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. -- Corpus Christi (kr&ibreve;s"tī) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d&esl;*l&ibreve;k"tī) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (lū"t&esl;*ŭm); pl.Corpora lutea (-&adot;). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str&isl;*ā"tŭm); pl.Corpora striata (-t&adot;). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.