HyperDic: mammillary_body

English > 1 sense of the expression mammillary body:
NOUNbodymammillary body, mamillary body, corpus mamillareone of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
English > mammillary body: 1 sense > noun 1, body
MeaningOne of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix.
Synonymsmamillary body, corpus mamillare
Part ofdiencephalon, interbrain, betweenbrain, thalmencephalonThe posterior division of the forebrain
Broaderneural structureA structure that is part of the nervous system
Spanishcorpus mamillare
Catalancorpus mamillare

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