1. Corpus al´bicans white fibrous tissue that replaces the regressing Corpus luteum in the human ovary in the latter half of pregnancy, or soon after ovulation when pregnancy does not supervene

2. The severity of the symptoms, as well as their duration, is also less, but there is a greater tendency to the super- imposition of functional troubles such as paralyses and Algesias ; these may supervene immediately but, more com- monly, they develop later in the course of the disease when the symptoms of commotional origin are recovering.