CORPUS CARDIACUM


Meaning of CORPUS CARDIACUM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -kär-ˈdī-ə-kəm ]

noun

( plural corpora car·di·a·ca -ə-kə)

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.