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... > Nervous System > Central Nervous System > Brain > Limbic System > Hypothalamus > Hypothalamus, Posterior > Mammillary Bodies
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Mammillary Bodies  

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Entry terms

  • Bodies, Mamillary
  • Body, Mamillary
  • Mamillary Bodies
  • Mamillary Body

Scope note

  • A pair of nuclei and associated GRAY MATTER in the interpeduncular space rostral to the posterior perforated substance in the POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS.

History note

  • 2015(1992); was MAMMILLARY BODIES 1971-1991 and 1992-2014; was MAMMILLARY BODIES see under HYPOTHALAMUS 1963-70;

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008326

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