tricorporal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having three bodies (for example like a goddess represented in three forms).

   • [...] identified with her sister Persephone, as well as with Artemis and Selene (the Moon). Hence a tricorporal statue of her was dedicated to her at Athens, at a period as early as that of the Peloponnesian war.
   • A number of eminent men in learning and science used to assemble nightly at the Tuscan ambassador's, where Galileo at that time resided, to look through his telescope at Venus, and the "tricorporal" Saturn.
   • It is of course by no means readily apparent what it would mean to have "three bodies" or to be "tricorporal" in any case. As we have already seen, Buti interprets it to mean in Dante a monster combining tre varie forme: face of a[…]
2. 2

   Involving three corpora

   Involving three corpora; in particular, of a priapism: involving both the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum.

   • Patients with tricorporal involvement are also particularly susceptible to acute severe neurologic complications and overall increased morbidity - even those treated with exchange transfusion (570,659). They should be monitored[…]
   • An MRI scan of the penis can determine if the obstruction is confined to the corpora cavernosa (bicorporal) or if there is involvement of the spongiosa (tricorporal). Involvement of the spongiosa is indicative of cavernosa infarction.
   • In contrast, priapism in adults is usually tricorporal, low flow, recurrent, and long-lasting, and […]

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• synonymtricorporeal
• synonymtricorporate
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