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Definition of Corpus mamillare

1. Noun. One of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix.

Medical Definition of Corpus mamillare

1. A small, round, paired cell group that protrudes into the interpeduncular fossa from the inferior aspect of the hypothalamus. It receives hippocampal fibres through the fornix and projects fibres to the anterior thalamic nuclei and into the brainstem tegmentum. Synonym: corpus mamillare, mamillary tubercle of hypothalamus. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpus Mamillare

Literary usage of Corpus mamillare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"I. The Fornix and corpus mamillare.—The authors limit the conception of the fornix to those fibers arising in the cornu ammonis and passing by way of the ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1902)
"The Fornix and corpus mamillare.—The authors limit the conception of the fornix to those fibers arising in the cornu ammonis and passing by way of the ..."

3. Brain and spinal cord: a manual for the study of the morphology and fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"Direct fibres pass to the tuber cinereum, to the corpus mamillare, ... The tract of fibres passing to the corpus mamillare is further joined by the fibre- ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"Gudden reached the conclusion that each corpus mamillare contained at least two nesta of cells — a medial and lateral. The medial nest connected mainly with ..."

5. Neurological Technique: Some Special Histological Methods Employed for the by Irving Hardesty (1901)
"Look for the commissura posterior. This may have been removed with the mesencephalon and corpus pineale. Section 75, to pass through the corpus mamillare, ..."

6. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"Each corpus mamillare has the appearance of being a twisted loop of the ... In the interior of the corpus mamillare there is a nucleus of grey matter. ..."

7. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"In the interior of the corpus mamillare there is a nucleus of grey matter. In that nucleus the fibres of the column end ; while the other fibres, ..."

8. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"From the cells of the corpus mamillare the ... form a loop resembling the figure 8, but the continuity of the loop is broken in the corpus mamillare ..."

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