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CORPUS LUTEUM
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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:
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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