tricorporal

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ corporal.

Adjective

tricorporal (not comparable)

1. Having three bodies (for example like a goddess represented in three forms).
   • 1843, Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain), Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, page 229:

     [...] identified with her sister Persephone, as well as with Artemis and Selene (the Moon). Hence a tricorporal statue of her was dedicated to her at Athens, at a period as early as that of the Peloponnesian war.

   • 1878, The Quarterly Review, page 380:

     A number of eminent men in learning and science used to assemble nightly at the Tuscan ambassador's, where Galileo at that time resided, to look through his telescope at Venus, and the "tricorporal" Saturn.

   • 2006 May 9, Marsha L. Dutton, Patrick Terrell Gray, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: Studies in Christian Ecclesiality and Ecumenism in Honor of J. Robert Wright, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

     It is of course by no means readily apparent what it would mean to have "three bodies" or to be "tricorporal" in any case. As we have already seen, Buti interprets it to mean in Dante a monster combining tre varie forme: face of a […]

   • 2015 January 12, A. Bernard Knapp, Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:

     The hesitancy in identifying Cypriot representations of this tricorporal warrior as a direct reflection of the Geryon from Greek myth arises from the fact that, in Cyprus, he is always depicted in isolation, seemingly without any other […]

   • 2015, Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice, Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     ... while at the end of the year he learned about Saturn's tricorporal appearance thanks to the Narratio. Galileo had announced the discovery through an anagram Kepler published in the latter work, unsuccessfully trying to solve it.

   • 2020 July 31, Ralph Haussler, Gian Franco Chiai, Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity: Creation, Manipulation, Transformation, Oxbow Books, →ISBN:

     Alföldi (1960) has identified a depiction of the cult statue of Diana Nemorensis in her tricorporal aspect, cited in the literary sources, with the trees from the sacred grove depicted in the background.

2. Involving three corpora; in particular, of a priapism: involving both the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum.
   • 2003, Robert I. Handin, Samuel E. Lux, Thomas P. Stossel, Blood: Principles and Practice of Hematology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 1688:

     Patients with tricorporal involvement are also particularly susceptible to acute severe neurologic complications and overall increased morbidity - even those treated with exchange transfusion (570,659). They should be monitored […]

   • 2005 June 6, Philip Lanzkowsky, Manual of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 168:

     An MRI scan of the penis can determine if the obstruction is confined to the corpora cavernosa (bicorporal) or if there is involvement of the spongiosa (tricorporal). Involvement of the spongiosa is indicative of cavernosa infarction.

   • 2009 August 17, Martin H. Steinberg, Bernard G. Forget, Douglas R. Higgs, David J. Weatherall, Disorders of Hemoglobin: Genetics, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Management, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 474:

     In contrast, priapism in adults is usually tricorporal, low flow, recurrent, and long-lasting, and  […]

   • 2015 June 1, Samir K. Ballas, Sickle Cell Pain, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:

     Anatomically, priapism may be bicorporal or tricorporal. Magnetic resonance imaging of the penis can differentiate these two patterns. Bicorporal priapism involves both corpora cavernosa and is common in children […]

   • 2016 March 29, Fernando Ferreira Costa, Nicola Conran, Sickle Cell Anemia: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice, Springer, →ISBN, page 302:

     Tricorporal priapism probably represents a later stage of bicorporal priapism developing a venous blockade [...] so it would be reasonable for ED physicians to consider tricorporal priapism a more severe case upfront.

Synonyms

• tricorporeal, tricorporate, tricorporated

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tricorporal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)