Corpus Explained

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

• Corpus (album), by Sebastian Santa Maria
• Corpus Delicti (band), also known simply as Corpus

Medicine

• Corpus callosum, 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 Latin term referring to the body of the stomach
• Corpus alienum, a foreign object originating outside the body
• Corpus albicans
• Corpora amylacea
• Corpora arenacea

Surname

• Victor Corpus (1944 - 2024), Filipino military officer and public official

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, 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
• Corpus, the colloquial term mostly used for Corpus Christi, Texas
• 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 scheme
• The Corpus, a faction in the online game Warframe, organized as a cult that worships profit
• CORPUS, a dissident Catholic organisation
• Enron Corpus, a database of emails from the disgraced American energy company Enron

See also

• Habeas corpus, a legal mechanism to end detention of a suspect
• Corpus delicti, a legal term meaning "body of the crime"
• Corpus Christi (disambiguation)
• Corpus separatum (disambiguation), a form of political administration used in international conflict resolution
• Body (disambiguation)