Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fornix"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fornix \For"nix\, n.; pl. {Fornices}. [L., an arch.] (Anat.)
(a) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the
cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
(b) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue
beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fornix
n : 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
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