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Fornix, Brain  

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Entry terms

  • Fornices (Brain)
  • Fornix (Brain)

Scope note

  • Heavily myelinated fiber bundle of the TELENCEPHALON projecting from the hippocampal formation to the HYPOTHALAMUS. Some authorities consider the fornix part of the LIMBIC SYSTEM. The fimbria starts as a flattened band of axons arising from the subiculum and HIPPOCAMPUS, which then thickens to form the fornix.

History note

  • 2008 (2000)

In other languages

  • aivokaari

    Finnish

  • fornix
  • fornix cerebri
  • Hjärnvalv

    Swedish

  • Fimbria fornicis
  • Fornix cerebri
  • Valvfrans

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020712

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