(informal) Corpus Christi (city in Texas) / (Cambridge University slang) Clipping of Corpus Christi, referring to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.

(law) The evidence that a crime has occurred.

(anatomy) The striated mass of white and grey matter in front of the thalamus on each side of the brain

A person, animal or thing treated as expendable, to therefore use as an experimental subject regardless of whatever loss or damage it may suffer as a result.

(anatomy) One of the pair of cylindrical columns of erectile tissue that form the bulk of the clitoris and penis.

(surgery) A surgical procedure in which the corpus callosum is severed to control generalised seizures.

A structure, near the brain of young arthropods, that secretes the hormone neotenin.

plural of corpus language

(linguistics) A language that has no living speakers, though a number of productions of its native speakers have been preserved in some way, usually in written records.