The story
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromcorpus spongiōsum“spongy body”
- English todaycorpus spongiosum
Learned borrowing from New Latin corpus spongiōsum (“spongy body”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
corpus spongiosum
Today it means: The mass of spongy erectile tissue surrounding the urethra within the penis or clitoris. Full definition →
New Latin corpus spongiōsum