mamillary body
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mamillary body — noun one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix • Syn: ↑mammillary body, ↑corpus mamillare • Hypernyms: ↑neural structure • Part Holonyms: ↑diencephalon, ↑i … Useful english dictionary
mamillary body — one of two masses of grey matter at the base of the brain that sends and receives olfactory impulses (Anatomy) … English contemporary dictionary
mammillary body — noun one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix • Syn: ↑mamillary body, ↑corpus mamillare • Hypernyms: ↑neural structure • Part Holonyms: ↑diencephalon, ↑int … Useful english dictionary
Mammillary body — Brain: Mammillary body The hypophysis cerebri in position. Shown in sagittal section. (Label corpus mamillare at right.) … Wikipedia
Nucleus — 1) In cell biology, the structure that houses the chromosomes. 2) In neuroanatomy, a group of nerve cells. * * * 1. In cytology, typically a rounded or oval mass of protoplasm within the cytoplasm of a plant or animal cell; it is surrounded by a… … Medical dictionary
region — 1. An often arbitrarily limited portion of the surface of the body. SEE ALSO: space, zone. 2. A portion of the body having a special nervous or vascular supply, or a part of an organ having a special … Medical dictionary
fasciculus — 1. SYN: fascicle. 2. SYN: cord. 3. SYN: bundle. [L. dim. of fascis, bundle] f. anterior musculi palatopharyngei [TA] SYN: anterior fascicle of palatopharyngeus (muscle). anterior f. proprius [TA] SYN: fasciculi proprii … Medical dictionary
Isothalamus — The isothalamus is a division used by some researchers in describing the thalamus. [Percheron, G. (2003) Thalamus . In Paxinos, G. and May, J.(eds). The human nervous system . 2d Ed. Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp.592 675] .The isothalamus constitutes… … Wikipedia
peduncle — 1. In neuroanatomy, term loosely applied to a variety of stalklike connecting structures in the brain, composed either exclusively of white matter ( e.g., cerebellar p.) or of white and gray matter ( e.g., cerebral p … Medical dictionary
Fornix — In anatomy, a vaultlike or arched structure. Fornix is the Latin word for vault or arch. The fornix in the brain is a fibrous arching band connecting the two lobes of the cerebrum. The fornix of the conjunctivae refers to loose arching folds… … Medical dictionary
