noun. An archlike anatomical structure or fold, such as the arched band of white matter beneath the corpus callosum of the brain.

noun. In topical geom., a part of a surface which, in conjunction with another similar part which inseparably accompanies it, increases the cyclosis of the surface by two.

noun. In anat.: A median symmetrical arched formation in the brain, beneath the corpus callosum and septum lucidum, vaulting over the optic thalami and the third ventricle, and running into the floor of each lateral ventricle.

noun. Some other arched, vaulted, or fornicated formation: as, the fornix conjunctivœ, the vault of the conjunctiva.

noun. In conch.: The vaulted or excavated part of a shell under the umbo.

noun. The more concavo-convex one of the shells of an inequivulve bivalve, as an oyster.

noun. In botany, a small arching crest or appendage in the throat or tube of a corolla.

noun. An arch or fold

noun. Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

noun. An archlike structure or fold.

noun. Specifically, the arched bundle of fibres or axons at the base of the brain.

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

noun. 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

"HOLISTIC MEDICINE It receives afferents via inferior colliculi (inferior corpora quadrigemina) and medial geniculate bodies (part of thalamus) from COCHLEA, via olfactory tracts from OLFACTORY NEUROEPITHELIUM and via fornix [ "fornix" means arch] from MAMILLARY BODIES and probably from VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS on its posterior aspect where equilibrium sense is projected."

body of the fornix  bulbs of the fornix  columns of the fornix  delta fornicis  fornix cerebri  

fornical  fornicate  forniceal  fornix vaginae  

body part  fascicle  fasciculus  fiber bundle  fibre bundle  

antennæ  atresia  calcaneal  collarette  commissure  

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