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

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Term information

database cross reference
  • 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
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
fornix cerebri [ NeuroNames:268 ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Gray747.png

has related synonym

fornix hippocampus

fornix (column and body of fornix)

fornix cerebri

hippocampus fornix

id

UBERON:0000052

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606