Letter C

Corporeal

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Pertaining to the body of an organ or the entire body.

The term also serves as a suffix, as in intracorporeal or extracorporeal.

From the Latin corpus meaning body and ultimately from an Indo-European word that is also the ancestor of the term corpse

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