The corpus albicans (Latin for "white body" ) is the regressed form of the corpus luteum. As the corpus luteum is being broken down by macrophages, fibroblasts lay down type I collagen, forming the corpus albicans. This process is called "luteolysis". The remains of the corpus albicans may persist as a scar on the surface of the ovary.

The corpus albicans is also known as atretic corpus luteum, corpus candicans, or simply as albicans.

References

• "Corpus albicans." Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 27th ed. (2000). ISBN 0-683-40007-X
• Hiatt, James L. and Leslie P. Gartner. Color Textbook of Histology, 2nd ed. (2001). ISBN 0-7216-8806-3

Histology | Gynecology | Reproductive system | Pelvis