Pronunciation: -kär- ' d ī - ə -k ə m
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural corpora car · di · a · ca \ - ə -k ə \
Etymology: New Latin, literally, cardiac body
Date: 1960
: one of a pair of separate or fused bodies of nervous tissue in many insects that lie posterior to the brain and function in the storage and secretion of brain hormone