An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
an arch or fold; a tract in the brain made up of association fibers, connecting the hippocampus with the mamillary bodies; a recess around the cervix of the uterus where it protrudes into the vagina
L. = a cellar, a vault, the arch of a vault, a prostitute's cellar or brothel (hence fornication); conjuctival fornix = recess where palpebral conjunctiva joins to bulbar conjunctiva; vaginal fornices = vaults surrounding intravaginal part of cervix; fornix of the brain = arched bundle of fibres.
A large fiber bundle that contains output axons leaving the hippocampus.
a subcortical component of the limbic system; the fornix is a group of fibers that arise from the hippocampus and connect the rhinencephalon to the thalamus and hypothalamus; the fornix is connected to the septal nuclei and the mamillary bodies
the portion of the conjunctiva forming the junction between the posterior eyelid and the eyeball
Latin = arch (hence fornication, because the Roman prostitutes plied their profession beneath the arches of the bridges over the river Tiber).
An arch or the space bounded by an arch; in the brain, an arching tract that connects the hippocampus with the mamillary bodies; in the eye, a slender pocket situated where the epithelium of the ocular conjunctiva folds back on itself as the palpebral conjunctiva.
The junction of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva.
Pathway that connects the hippocampus to the mamillary bodies.
generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
L. arch. The forn'x is an arched structure connecting the hippocampus with the mamillary body. First described by Vesalius (1514-1564).
the junction of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivas
A bundle of fibers which associates the anterior and the posterior parts of the rhinencephalon. It includes fibers from several sources and of several destinations, all of them concerned in the transmission of impulses ultimately olfactory.
Older Roman term for an arch. Used also as a description of an arch which is flanked by engaged columns which in turn support an entablature above the arch.
Inter-related to cul-de-sac. It is the peripheral extreme where palpebral and bulbar tissues meet in the enucleated cavity.
A pathway of nerve fibers that transmits information from the hippocampus and other limbic areas to the mamillary body.
The major tract of the limbic system projecting from the hippocampus, circling the thalamus, and terminating in the septum and mammillary bodies.
Pathway that connects the hippocampus with the mamillary bodies.
a pathway that connects the hippocampus and the mamillary bodies.