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nounan 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
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noungenerally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)type of:
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- corpus mamillare one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
- mamillary body one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
- mammillary body one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
- carina fornicis ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain