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 ...

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 ...

, 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 sp ...

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

Corpus linguistics Corpus linguistics is the 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 feasible with corpora ...

, a branch of linguistics

Music

* ''Corpus'' (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria * Corpus Delicti (band), 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 ...

, a structure in the brain * Corpus cavernosum (disambiguation), a pair of structures in human genitals * Corpus luteum, 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 * Corpora amylacea * Corpora arenacea

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, 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 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 ...

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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