A C-shaped bundle of fibres (axons) in the brain, and carries signals from the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies and septal nuclei. It is typically divided into the columns (crus), body, commissure and the pre-commissural and post-commissural fornix (MM). [ BIRNLEX:705 ]
Synonyms: fornix of neuraxis neuraxis fornix forebrain fornix brain fornix cerebral fornix
Term information
- Wikipedia:fornix_of_brain
- neuronames:268 (BIRNLEX:705)
- FMA:83865
- UMLS:C0458370 (ncithesaurus:Cerebral_Fornix)
- EMAPA:35352
- BAMS:f
- DHBA:10576
- MA:0002747
- UMLS:C0152334 (BIRNLEX:705)
- BIRNLEX:705
- NCIT:C32289
- HBA:9249
- FMA:61965 (inferred)
- DMBA:17767
- SCTID:279302004
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
fornix hippocampus
fornix (column and body of fornix)
fornix cerebri
hippocampus fornix