tricorporeal

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English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ corporeal.

Adjective

tricorporeal (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of tricorporal (having three bodies; involving three corpora)
    • 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:
      [...] 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.
    • 2003 January 1, Stillman Drake, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 211:
      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.
    • 2017 November 22, Brice Antao, Michael S Irish, Succeeding in Paediatric Surgery Examinations, Volume 2: A Complete Resource for EMQs, CRC Press, →ISBN:
      Commonly tumescence involves only the corpora cavernosa but occasionally it may also involve the corpus spongiosum and is then known as tricorporeal priapism. There is a long list of causes of priapism.
    • 2019 July 23, Stefano Gattei, On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 123:
      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.