MAMMILLARY BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mammillary body mean? 

• MAMMILLARY BODY (noun)
  The noun MAMMILLARY BODY has 1 sense:

1. one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix

  Familiarity information: MAMMILLARY BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAMMILLARY BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

corpus mamillare; mamillary body; mammillary body

Hypernyms ("mammillary body" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Holonyms ("mammillary body" is a part of...):

betweenbrain; diencephalon; interbrain; thalmencephalon (the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon)

 Context examples 

The C-shaped bundle of axons in the midline of the brain which originate in both hemispheres of the hippocampus and project to the contralateral hippocampus and septum, mammillary body, and the anterior nucleus of the thalamus.

(Cerebral Fornix, NCI Thesaurus)