corpus luteum

English

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

corpus luteum (plural corpora lutea)

(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 2016, p. 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.

yellow mass of cells that forms from an ovarian follicle

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