Medical Definition of Hippocampus major

1. Area of mammallian brain and an important preparation for the study of synaptic plasticity. The hippocampus has been known since the 1950s to be important for long term memory storage in humans and other mammals, it is essential for initial storing of long-term memory for a period of days to weeks before the memory trace is consolidated elsewhere. Also the site of long-term synaptic plasticity: see long-term potentiation, which is exhibited by defined synaptic pathways in the hippocampus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippocampus Major

hippoboscids
hippocalcin
hippocamp
hippocampal
hippocampal commissure
hippocampal fissure
hippocampal sclerosis
hippocampal sulcus
hippocampally
hippocampi
hippocampocortical
hippocamps
hippocampus
hippocampus major (current term)
hippocampus minor
hippocaust
hippocausts
hippocentaur
hippocentaurs
hippocephalic
hippocras
hippocrases
hippocrates
hippocratic
hippocratic face
hippocratic facies
hippocratic fingers
hippocratic nails

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