CORPUS LUTEUM


Meaning of CORPUS LUTEUM in English

[corpus lu.te.um] n, pl corpora lu.tea [NL, lit., yellowish body] (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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