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CORPUS LUTEUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: corpora lutea   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("corpus luteum" is a kind of...):

ductless gland; endocrine; endocrine gland (any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream)

Holonyms ("corpus luteum" is a part of...):

Graafian follicle (a vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg)

Derivation:

luteal (of or relating to the corpus luteum)

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