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noun
One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, that act as a relay for impulses coming from the amygdalae and hippocampi to the thalamus, and (as part of the diencephalon) form part of the limbic system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mamillary body, corpus mamillare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: neural structure
History
From mammillary (“resembling a breast or nipple”) + body.
Across languages
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