The term has several senses in English:
- In law a is a collection of documents and sources. See Corpus Juris Civilis .
- In linguistics, a Text Corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed), used in the field of Corpus Linguistics .
- In biology, a is the main body/mass/part of an organ or other anatomical structure, distinguished from the head or tail.
- In Christianity, '' refers to the body of Christ and often is used as a technical term for the figure which hangs upon a Crucifix .
- In anatomy, the two Corpora Cavernosa (singular ''corpus cavernosum'') constitute the main internal structure of the penis.
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