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corpus albicans

 
Dictionary: corpus al·bi·cans   (ăl'bĭ-kănz') pronunciation
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The white fibrous scar tissue in an ovary that results after the involution and regression of the corpus luteum.

[New Latin corpus albicāns : Latin corpus, body + New Latin albicāns, whitening.]


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(ăl'bĭ-kănz')
n., pl. al·bi·can·ti·a (ăl'bĭ-kăn'tē-ə).

The white fibrous scar tissue in an ovary that results after the involution and regression of the corpus luteum. Also called corpus albicans.

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human corpus albicans.

The corpus albicans (Latin for "white body" ) is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay down type I collagen, forming the corpus albicans. This process is called "luteolysis". The remains of the corpus albicans may persist as a scar on the surface of the ovary.

The corpus albicans is also known as atretic corpus luteum, corpus candicans, or simply as albicans.

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