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tricorporeal

tricorporeal adjective: synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).

Adjective

tricorporeal (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).
    • [...] one is tempted to see in the pair of defending Amazons next to the body of the fallen Andromache an adaptation of the familiar tricorporeal Geryon.1991 07, Page duBois, Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 50
    • Agucchi wrote : Meanwhile I thank you especially for what you say, and then for the information you gave me about Saturn - that as you predicted it began again to appear tricorporeal at the last solstice.2003 January 1, Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 211
    Synonyms:
    tricorporal

Examples of tricorporeal in a sentence

  • Commonly tumescence involves only the corpora cavernosa but occasionally it may also involve the corpus spongiosum and is then known as tricorporeal priapism.2017 November 22, Brice Antao, Michael S Irish, Succeeding in Paediatric Surgery Examinations, Volume 2: A Complete Resource for EMQs, CRC...
  • Galileo realized that the star Saturn is tricorporeal, that is, three-bodied: a main, spherical body at the center, and two smaller ones on the sides.2019 July 23, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies, Princeton University Press...

Synonyms of tricorporeal

Origin of tricorporeal

From tri- + corporeal.

Questions about tricorporeal

What does tricorporeal mean?
Tricorporeal means synonym of tricorporal (“having three bodies; involving three corpora”).
How do you use tricorporeal in a sentence?
Commonly tumescence involves only the corpora cavernosa but occasionally it may also involve the corpus spongiosum and is then known as tricorporeal priapism.
What part of speech is tricorporeal?
Tricorporeal is an adjective.

Words near tricorporeal in the dictionary

  1. tricornute
  2. tricornuted
  3. tricorporal
  4. tricorporate
  5. tricorporated
  6. tricorporeal
  7. tricortical
  8. tricorticate
  9. tricorythid
  10. tricosadiene
  11. tricosadienes

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