A C-shaped bundle of fibres (axons) in the brain, and carries signals from the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies and septal nuclei. It is typically divided into the columns (crus), body, commissure and the pre-commissural and post-commissural fornix (MM). [ BIRNLEX:705 ]
Synonyms: fornix of neuraxis neuraxis fornix forebrain fornix brain fornix cerebral fornix
Term information
- FMA:83865
- NCIT:C32289
- neuronames:268 (BIRNLEX:705)
- HBA:9249
- DMBA:17767
- BAMS:f
- FMA:61965 (inferred)
- UMLS:C0152334 (BIRNLEX:705)
- BIRNLEX:705
- SCTID:279302004
- EMAPA:35352
- MA:0002747
- Wikipedia:fornix_of_brain
- UMLS:C0458370 (ncithesaurus:Cerebral_Fornix)
- DHBA:10576
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-male/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-m-brain.glb
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Gray747.png
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/brain-female/v1.4/assets/3d-allen-f-brain.glb
fornix hippocampus
fornix (column and body of fornix)
fornix cerebri
hippocampus fornix
Term relations
- tract of brain
- extends_fibers_into some mammillary body
- part of some hippocampal formation
- part of some system
- extends_fibers_into some septal nuclear complex