Part of fornix adjacent to the crura where they join together at the midline underneath the corpus callosum. [ BIRNLEX:739 ]
Synonyms: body of fornix columna fornicis column of fornix body of fornix of forebrain fornix body columns of fornix
Term information
- DHBA:10578
- neuronames:271
- BIRNLEX:739
- HBA:9252
- Wikipedia:Columns_of_fornix
- FMA:61968
- MBA:436
- UMLS:C0228289 (BIRNLEX:739)
- SCTID:369117006
- DHBA:10577
- BAMS:fx
- BAMS:bfx
The columns (anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramen and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the gray substance in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the corpus mammillare. [WP,unvetted][Wikipedia:Columns_of_fornix].