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 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, 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 stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates. The stomach has a dilated structure and functions as a vital organ in the digestive system. The stomach is ...

, the Latin term referring to the body of the stomach *

Corpus alienum A foreign body (FB) is any object originating outside the body of an organism. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object. Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs. Foreign b ...

, 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 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), 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), a Canadian dance troupe * Corpus (typography), 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'', organized as a cult that worships profit * CORPUS, a dissident Catholic organisation

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