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Fornix

noun

(pl. fornices)

Generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space).

An 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. Synonym: trigonum cerebrale.

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"Fornix" Quotes from Famous Books

... this point is crowded; here Horace a generation later was to meet his immortal "bore," from whom he only escaped when the "ferrea iura" laid a strong hand on that terrible companion. Down below, at the entrance to the Forum by the arch of Fabius (fornix Fabiana), the jostling was great. "If I am knocked about in the crowd at the arch," says Cicero, to illustrate a point in a speech of this time, "I do not accuse some one at the top of the via Sacra, but ...

— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler

Words linked to "Fornix" : fascicle, trigonum cerebrale, fiber bundle, visceral brain, body part, limbic system, limbic brain, fibre bundle, carina fornicis, fasciculus