tricorporal

Adjective

tricorporal (not comparable)

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.1843, Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain), Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, page 229
   • 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.1878, The Quarterly Review, page 380
2. 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[…]2003, Robert I. Handin, Samuel E. Lux, Thomas P. Stossel, Blood: Principles and Practice of Hematology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 1688
   • 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.2005 June 6, Philip Lanzkowsky, Manual of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 168