The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]). A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. Corpora callosa (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.
Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [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[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [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 (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. Corpora lutea (-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. Corpora striata (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Wiktionary
n. In mammals, a broad band of nerve fibres that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
WordNet
n. a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres
Wikipedia
The corpus callosum (; Latin for "tough body"), also known as the callosal commissure, is a wide, flat bundle of neural fibers about 10 cm long beneath the cortex in the eutherian brain at the longitudinal fissure. It connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres and facilitates interhemispheric communication. It is the largest white matter structure in the brain, consisting of 200–250 million contralateral axonal projections.
Corpus Callosum is a 2007 film by Sarah Nagy and Bryan Felber. It debuted in the United States on December 13, 2007. It is named after the bridge of neural connections between the left and right sides of the brain.
Usage examples of "corpus callosum".
We might say that human culture is the function of the corpus callosum.
I CALLED ANDY the next morning, told him about what I had found about the corpus callosum, and further explained my idea of bacteria acting as catalysts for our consciousness.
If both hemispheres are left in place and the corpus callosum is cut, coordination is lost and the two body halves come under more or less independent control.
Until you get some decent regeneration in the corpus callosum, there'll be referred signals like this.
The implant at the top of the skull had some kind of link to the centre of the brain: to the corpus callosum, the fleshy bundle of nerve fibres between the hemispheres.
I must also take the radical step of severing the remaining portions of his corpus callosum.
Our brains all have two hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum or great commissure.
He also cannot feel, see, touch, or hear, except as I send my own sensory inputs to mnemonic storage through an added corpus callosum.
The corpus callosum, the anterior commissure--why, they're no more than a pair of cables.
This looks rather like the two halves of a walnut, joined in the middle by a thick bridge of nerves called the corpus callosum.
Lobes occipital and temporal, the cortex and the connecting fibres of the corpus callosum.