corpus callosum


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
corpus callosum /kəˈləʊsəm/
noun (pl. corpora callosa /-sə/) Anatomy a broad band of nerve fibres joining the two hemispheres of the brain.
– origin C18: from corpus and L. callosum, neut. of callosus ‘tough’.
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