corpus luteum

English

Etymology

From Latin corpus (“body”) + lūteum (“yellow”).

Noun

corpus luteum (plural corpora lutea)

1. (anatomy) A yellow mass of cells that forms from an ovarian follicle during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle in mammals; it secretes steroid hormones.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 546:

     The role of the corpus luteum in the oestrous cycle and in pregnancy was shown in 1929 by G. W. Corner (1889–1981) and Willard Allen (1904–93) to depend on a hormone named progestin, later called progesterol.

Derived terms

• haemolutein

 

Translations

yellow mass of cells that forms from an ovarian follicle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃體 / 黄体 (zh) (huángtǐ)

• Faroese: øksl n
• Finnish: keltarauhanen (fi)
• German: Gelbkörper m
• Greek: ωχρό σωμάτιο n (ochró somátio)
• Hungarian: sárgatest (hu)
• Italian: corpo luteo (it) m
• Japanese: 黄体 (おうたい, ōtai)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tenê zer

• Malay: korpus luteum
• Polish: ciałko żółte n
• Russian: жёлтое те́ло n (žóltoje télo)
• Spanish: cuerpo lúteo m
• Swedish: gulkropp (sv) c