n. Literally, a body; matter of any kind. In anatomy: The entire physical body of an animal. See soma. Some part of the body specified by a qualifying term. See phrases below.n. A collection, especially a complete one, or an account of such a collection.n. The whole content; the material substance.n. Same as corpusdentatum .n. A somewhat similar mass of gray matter in each olivary body. Also called corpus ciliare.n. Principal, as opposed to interest or income: as, these payments should be made out of corpus, and not out of income.n. In algebra, a manifold, such that its elements are representable by symbols which can be combined according to the laws of ordinary algebra, every algebraic expression obtained by combining a finite number of symbols by means of a finite chain of rational operations (+, —, ×, /) being capable of interpretation as representing a definite element of the manifold, with the single reservation that division by zero is inadmissible.