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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having three bodies (for example like a goddess represented in three forms)..
[...] 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.
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.
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[…]
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[…]
... 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.
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.
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[…]
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.
Use tricorporal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tricorporal means Having three bodies (for example like a goddess represented in three forms)..
Common synonyms include tricorporeal, tricorporate, tricorporated.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[...] 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.
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