Corpus is

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

for "body". It may refer to:

Linguistics

Text corpus In linguistics, a corpus (plural ''corpora'') or text corpus is a language resource consisting of a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). In corpus linguistics, they are used to do statistical a ...

, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts *

Speech corpus A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions. In speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or spea ...

, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files *

Corpus linguistics Corpus linguistics is the study of language, study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural ''corpora''), its body of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feas ...

, a branch of linguistics

Music

* ''Corpus'' (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria *

Corpus Delicti (band) Corpus Delicti was a French gothic rock band active in the early-mid 1990s. In the late 1990s, the band briefly reformed as an industrial rock band called Corpus. Two ex-Corpus Delicti members, Franck Amendola and Christophe Baudrion, later fo ...

, also known simply as Corpus

Medicine

Corpus callosum The corpus callosum (Latin for "tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract, consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain. The corpus callosum is only found in placental mam ...

, a structure in the brain *

Corpus cavernosum (disambiguation) Corpus cavernosum may refer to: * Corpus cavernosum clitoridis * Corpus cavernosum penis * "Corpus cavernosum urethrae" was used for corpus spongiosum The corpus spongiosum is the mass of spongy tissue surrounding the male urethra within the p ...

, a pair of structures in human genitals *

Corpus luteum The corpus luteum (Latin for "yellow body"; plural corpora lutea) is a temporary endocrine structure in female ovaries involved in the production of relatively high levels of progesterone, and moderate levels of estradiol, and inhibin A. It is t ...

, a temporary endocrine structure in mammals * Corpus gastricum, the Latin term referring to the body of the stomach * Corpus alienum, a foreign object originating outside the body *

Corpus albicans The corpus albicans (Latin for "whitening body"; also known as atretic corpus luteum, corpus candicans, or simply as albicans) is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay d ...

Corpora amylacea Corpora amylacea (CA) (from the Latin meaning "starch-like bodies") is a general term for small hyaline masses found in the prostate gland, nervous system, lung, and sometimes in other organs of the body. Corpora amylacea increase in number and ...

Corpora arenacea Corpora arenacea (''singular'': corpus arenaceum, also called brain sand or acervuli or psammoma bodies or pineal concretions) are calcified structures in the pineal gland and other areas of the brain such as the choroid plexus. Older organisms ...

Other uses

* ''Corpus'' (Bernini), a 1650 sculpture of Christ by Gian Lorenzo Bernini *

Corpus (museum) The Corpus Museum is a human biology interactive museum, located in Oegstgeest, near Leiden, in the Netherlands. Billed as "a journey through the human body", the museum provides both education and entertainment through a combination of permanent ...

, a human body themed museum in the Netherlands *

Corpus Clock The Corpus Clock, also known as the Grasshopper clock, is a large sculptural clock at street level on the outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, at the junction of Bene't Street ...

, a large sculptural clock *

Corpus (dance troupe) Corpus is a Canadian dance company whose work often combines humour with dance. Besides major productions, they often perform in schools, and are co-creators of the Treehouse TV series 4 Square. They have performed thousands of shows internationa ...

, a Canadian dance troupe *

Corpus (typography) In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point ...

, another name for long primer-size type * Corpus, the figure of Christ on a

crucifix A crucifix (from Latin ''cruci fixus'' meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the ''corpus'' (Lati ...

* Corpus fund, the

capital Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences * Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used f ...

generated for the continued sustenance of an organization * Corpus, total amount of money invested by all investors in a

Mutual Fund A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV i ...

scheme * The Corpus, a faction in the online game ''

Warframe ''Warframe'' is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in No ...

'', organized as a cult that worships profit *

CORPUS Corpus is Latin for "body". It may refer to: Linguistics * Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts * Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files * Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics Music * ...

, a dissident Catholic organisation

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