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1. The principal of a bond. For example, securities dealers create zero-coupon Treasury receipts by purchasing a regular Treasury bond and separating the interest coupons from the corpus. See also coupon stripping.
2. The principal amount of an estate or trust.


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It also has to be said that if the arteries bringing blood into the penis get furred up, there's insufficient blood to stretch the corpus cavernosum to expand the penis so an erection will be a pretty half-hearted affair.
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS of erections include neural initiation of penile erection following erectogenic stimuli, cellular activation of smooth muscle relaxation, and smooth muscle relaxation in the corpus cavernosum of the penis.
 
 
 
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