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

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

(law) A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal.

(informal, law) To apply the legal principle of habeas corpus to an individual or situation.

(anatomy) A yellow mass of cells that forms from an ovarian follicle during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle in mammals; it secretes steroid hormones.

(neuroanatomy) In mammals, a broad band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

(linguistics) An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language constructs is from the corpus (existing body of literature) of the language

The entire body of laws of a jurisdiction or of a particular court.

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.

(law) The evidence that a crime has occurred.