Part 2443

<h1>Corpulence krp-l<it>e</it>ns, Corpulency</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw><hw>Cor"pu*lence</hw> <tt>(k?r"p?-l<it>e</it>ns)</tt>, <hw>Cor"pu*len*cy</hw> <tt>(k?r"p?-l<it>e</it>n-s?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corpulentia</ets>: cf. F. <ets>corpulence</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Thickness; density; compactness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The heaviness and <b>corpulency</b> of water requiring a great force to divide it. <i>Ray.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Corpulent</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor"pu*lent</hw> <tt>(-p?-l<it>e</it>nt)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corpulentus</ets>, fr. <ets>corpus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>corpulent</ets>. See <er>Corpse</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Very fat; obese.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Solid; gross; opaque.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See <er>Stout</er>.</syn>

<h1>Corpulently</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor"pu*lent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a corpulent manner.</def>

<h1>Corpus</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor"pus</hw> <tt>(-p?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Corpora</plw> <tt>(-p<?/-r<?/)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.</def>

<cs><col>Corpus callosum</col> <tt>(k<?/l-l<?/"s<?/m)</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Corpora callosa</plw> (-s<?/)</plu> <ety>[NL., callous body]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See <er>Brain</er>.</cd> -- <col>Corpus Christi</col> <tt>(kr<?/s"t<?/)</tt> <ety>[L., body of Christ]</ety> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.</cd> -- <col>Corpus Christi cloth</col>. <cd>Same as <i>Pyx cloth</i>, under <er>Pyx</er>.</cd> -- <col>Corpus delicti</col> <tt>(d<?/-l<?/k"t<?/)</tt> <ety>[L., the body of the crime]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.</cd> -- <col>Corpus luteum</col> <tt>(l<?/"t<?/-<?/m)</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Corpora lutea</plw> <tt>(-<?/)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[NL., luteous body]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.</cd> -- <col>Corpus striatum</col> <tt>(str<?/<?/"t<?/m)</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Corpora striata</plw> <tt>(-t<?/)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[NL., striate body]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.</cd></cs>

<h1>Corpuscle</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor"pus*cle</hw> <tt>(-p?s-s'l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corpusculum</ets>, dim. of <ets>corpus</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus <i>corpuscles</i>; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage <i>corpuscles</i>. See <er>Blood</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Virchow showed that the <b>corpuscles</b> of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. <i>Quain's Anat.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Red blood corpuscles</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from <fract>1/3500</fract> to <fract>1/3200</fract> of an inch in diameter and about <fract>1/12400</fract> of an inch thick. They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid h\'91moglobin and other matters. In most mammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless.</cd> -- <col>White blood corpuscles</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about <fract>1/2500</fract> of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles.</cd></cs>

<h1>Corpuscular</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor*pus"cu*lar</hw> <tt>(k?r-p?s"k?-l?r)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>corpusculaire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.</def>

<cs><col>Corpuscular philosophy</col>, <cd>that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter.</cd> -- <col>Corpuscular theory</col> <fld>(Opt.)</fld>, <cd>the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the <i>undulatory theory</i>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Corpuscularian</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor*pus`cu*la"ri*an</hw> <tt>(-l?"r?-a]/>n)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Corpuscular.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Corpuscularian</h1> <Xpage=326>

<hw>Cor*pus`cu*la"ri*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.</def>

<i>Bentley.</i>