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corpora
(redirected from Corpora quadrigemina)

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corpora
plural form of corpus.

corpora albicantia
see corpus albicans.
corpora arenacea
sandy or gritty bodies, found in the pineal body; appear to be of glial or stromal origin; have the structure of hydroxyapatite crystals. Called also brain sand, acervuli, psammomas.
corpora cavernosa penis
see corpus cavernosum penis.
corpora lutea
see corpus luteum.
corpora nigra
see iridial granule.
corpora quadrigemina
four rounded eminences on the posterior surface of the mesencephalon. See also colliculus.


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