| 释义 |
corpus car·di·a·cum
\-pəskärˈdīəkəm\ noun
(plural cor·po·ra car·di·a·ca \-pərəkärˈdīəkə\)
Etymology: New Latin, literally, cardiac body
: one of a pair of separate or fused bodies of nervous tissue in many insects that lie posterior to the brain and dorsal to the esophagus and function in the storage and secretion of brain hormone |