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Body Language: Corp ("Body")

Thu Jun 04 14:03:15 EDT 2015
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Learn these words that derive from the Latin word corpus, meaning "body."

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Corp ("Body") / Capit, Capt ("Head") / Or, Os ("Mouth") / Dent, Dont ("Tooth") / Gastr, Gastro ("Stomach") / Neur ("Nerve") / Man ("Hand") / Ped, Pod ("Foot") / Derm ("Skin") / Carn ("Flesh") / Os, Osteo ("Bone") / Cor, Cord, Cardio ("Heart") / Psych ("Mind")
corpus
In medical or legal jargon, corpus usually refers to an actual body; in everyday speech, corpus is typically used to refer to a body of knowledge.
As a result, over time, the chats build up into a corpus of deep historical knowledge.
corps
The public school student body of California is much more diverse than the teacher corps that would be tasked with adapting college-level concepts for the K-12 classroom.
corpse
The "p" in corpse was originally silent and the "e" was rarely added before the 19th century, so earlier references to a dead body were often spelled "corse" or "corps."
That night I dreamed of the king’s pale and bloodless corpse sprinkled with innocent white and pink blossoms.
corporal
Of course, corporal punishment was forbidden in the schools.
corporeal
Corporal and corporeal have similar meanings, but corporal is most commonly used in the context of punishment. Corporeal, on the other hand, is often used to describe experiences or sensations that affect the body rather than the mind.
They mean not just that physical reality helps us think, but that mental functioning depends on corporeal experience.
corpulent
I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
corpuscle
In a technical sense, corpuscle refers to specific types of cells. It can also be used more generally, as in the example sentence.
Each of us is but a tiny corpuscle in the vast, throbbing corpus.
corporation
A corporation is a business enterprise in which many individuals or divisions are united into and recognized as a single body.
The Justice Department sometimes forces the breakup of a large corporation into several smaller companies.
corporate
These days, corporate is most commonly used to mean "relating or belonging to a business firm," but it can also be used more generally, as in the example sentence, to refer to the action of any group working together as one body.
This is the principle of mutual dependence, the fundamental principle of corporate life.
incorporate
When we acquire new information, the brain automatically tries to incorporate it within existing information by forming associations.
habeas corpus
The Latin verb habere means to "to have or hold" and corpus in this phrase is used to mean "person." The right of habeas corpus prevents prisoners from being illegally detained.
They are preparing to file suit to get a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of captive elephants, such as those used in circus performances.
corset
The heat was a misery for all of us in Fentress, but it was the women who suffered the most in their corsets and petticoats.

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