CORPUS LUTEUM


Meaning of CORPUS LUTEUM in English

noun (plural corpora lutea) Etymology: New Latin, literally, yellowish body Date: 1788 a yellowish mass of progesterone-secreting endocrine tissue that forms immediately after ovulation from the ruptured graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary

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