Usually means: Temporary gland, secretes progesterone hormone.
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  1. corpus luteum: Merriam-Webster
  2. corpus luteum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corpus luteum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corpus luteum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corpus luteum: Vocabulary.com
  6. corpus luteum: Wordnik
  7. corpus luteum: Wiktionary
  8. corpus luteum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. corpus luteum: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. corpus luteum: Dictionary.com
  11. Corpus luteum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. corpus luteum: Rhymezone
  13. corpus luteum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. corpus luteum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. corpus luteum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. corpus luteum: Legal dictionary
  2. corpus luteum: Financial dictionary

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  1. corpus luteum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. corpus luteum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Corpus luteum: Merck Manuals
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  7. corpus luteum: Medical Etymology Anatomy
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  9. corpus luteum: Medical dictionary

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (corpus luteum)

noun:  (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.

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