corpus cavernosum
English
Etymology
From Latin corpus (“body”) + cavernōsum (“full of hollows or cavities”).
Noun
corpus cavernosum (plural corpora cavernosa)
- (anatomy) One of the pair of cylindrical columns of erectile tissue that form the bulk of the clitoris and penis.
- 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 235:
- He felt the corpora cavernosa, commanded by nerve messages from his subconscious brain, fill up with blood, and the tunica albuginea membrane, the penis’s straitjacket, trap the blood inside.
Coordinate terms
Translations
body of erectile tissue
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